As you all know, chiropractors specialize in neuromusculoskeletal problems, which probably represent 30% of what's seen, at any given time, at a medical doctor's office. If 30% of the people seen in a day could be directed to a chiropractor, that would definitely decrease wait times. It would open up the time for medical doctors to see patients with other kinds of problems. Definitely our profession specializes in neuromusculoskeletal problems.
We have 7,000 chiropractors in Canada who are, because of funding, underutilized, but we are a definite player in the game. As a matter of a fact, some of the colleagues I know in Quebec have some contacts with hospitals, and people in emergency try to send patients with neuromusculoskeletal problems to chiropractors' offices. This decreases, big time, the amount of wait times for people in the waiting room.
That's just in the emergency sector. Directly in medical offices, some 60,000 medical doctors in Canada have 30% of their patients consulting for neuromusculoskeletal problems. Just do the math on all the patients who come to their offices. So we are definitely addressing the human resources deficit in this country.