Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses.
Hopefully I'll have time to focus on three areas.
First, a number of years ago now I was working in a rural emergency department, where of course we saw everything. At the same time I ended up getting involved in local municipal politics. It was through that connection that we would frequently see a number of children come into our emergency facility with injuries from our dock. It was a little lake. Only because I was involved in municipal politics were we able to quickly say this dock is creating a lot of injuries and we need to fix it.
Do we not need to, to some degree, empower our hospitals to be analyzing what's happening in their communities around accidents and injuries and actually create that connection at that level? We have huge opportunities, a community base in injury prevention.
I just wanted to throw that out. We talk a lot about a national perspective. I always like to believe in the power of community.