Thank you, Madam Chair.
What a wealth of comments and suggestions. Thank you for that.
I have four questions. I'll try to make them quick, and I'll lay them out first so that there will be time for you to answer.
Dr. Padmos, do you have any assessment or estimate of the impact of cuts to the research granting councils or the absence of funding to Genome Canada? How might that impact human health resources in the coming years?
Dr. Ouellet, you talked about patient-centred care. I took a look at your presentation. What I didn't see was any recommendation around the kind of continuous quality improvement initiatives that I know have been very successful in British Columbia, Deming-based frameworks for quality and process improvement. They've been used by the Vancouver health authority at Vancouver General Hospital. I'm interested in your comment on the role of that kind of initiative in increasing quality and productivity.
Ms. Neufeld, thank you for your list of all the very positive initiatives that have happened in the early years of the 2000s. It's too bad there wasn't much after 2005.
You talked about the health human resources observatory, and I'd like your comment on the possibility of that observatory including complementary and alternative modalities. CIHI leaders told me they don't even collect information about naturopathic physicians and traditional Chinese doctors, and probably chiropractors, because there's no level playing field from a regulatory perspective. How can we address that?
Dr. Valade, this committee will be making recommendations through the study. What would you like to see as a recommendation to the federal government on how we can rapidly increase the number of collaborative clinics and practices and facilities that integrate complementary and alternative modalities?
Thank you.