Since you posed your question both to the advisory committee and to Health Canada, I think there's a connection with the concept of having a gathering point for virtually every interest--governmental, non-governmental, professional, public, and so on--to have a huge conversation about the major challenges and issues in this sector.
Your question relates a little bit to Dr. Bennett's question right at the outset about whether there's what I'll call a grand plan whereby progress is being tracked and reported upon, and so on. The nature of the country is such that there can be a grand plan around collaboration, but not necessarily a grand plan that's a strategic, detailed, step-by-step list of what we're going to work on first, and everybody's to get on board and work on the same things at the same time. That's not the reality of the health sector generally, nor is it specifically the reality in the area of health human resources.
I don't want to put words in their mouths, but I think some who are proponents of the observatory concept have a sense that if everybody could gather around the same table, we could get to this grand plan. I'm not sure that's reflective of the political realities of the country or of the health care sector in particular.
Could there be some amendments to the representation at the advisory committee table? Yes, but as Dr. Tepper has pointed out, that is a committee whose principal reporting relationship is to government, and if the non-governmental players want to have their own forum, that's a little bit of a different proposition.
The approach up to this point has been to incorporate stakeholders, professional organizations, and so on at a certain level in the advisory committee, and then as needed in those various subcommittees, working groups, and task groups that work on particular issues that flow from the pan-Canadian framework.