Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
In the documents that our witnesses have provided us with, I find one aspect to be virtually the same: the use of human resources. With your permission, I would like to highlight it for the committee.
Here is what the Canadian Physiotherapy Association writes in a paragraph entitled: “The importance of efficiency in health care and health human resources”: “The only way to afford current health care standards in the face of this increased demand is by increasing efficiency”. This, then, is about the efficiency of health care and health human resources, as the title indicates.
Here is what the Canadian Pharmacists Association writes: “The health system is not optimizing the use of its pharmacy human resources”.
In the brief from the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors, the first point in the conclusion says that it is necessary to: “ensure the utilization of all health care professionals to their full capacity”.
So all three seem to be telling us that health human resources are not well used or are not used to their full potential.
I just wonder—and this is my question for the witnesses—since health care is in the jurisdiction of Quebec and the provinces, have the witnesses also, first and foremost, made these observations to stakeholders in Quebec and the provinces?
I have a follow-up question. Since our witnesses feel that their observations are clear, that the present level of human resources is adequate but they are perhaps poorly used, why do we still have problems?