Thank you, Madam Chair.
I have some questions for the Rural Ontario Medical Program. Michelle and Peter, it's great to see you here. I've had the pleasure of attending some of the PAIRO tours that you're involved in. My colleague, Ms. Bennett, has spoken to one of your conferences before. Certainly you have a great reputation for helping get doctors into the community in underserviced areas.
I want to understand the setting right now in underserviced Ontario before I get into what some of the possible solutions are. I spoke to our physician recruiter in Simcoe County, and I understand that in Barrie alone, under the changes with incentive grants, we're going to have 17 doctors who no longer get incentive grants—that's 17 doctors in our community, taking patients, playing a vital role.
I understand that this change is going to make it remarkably more difficult for many parts of Ontario to recruit doctors. I understand there is an incentive grant of $40,000 that is on the precipice of being gone, and a $15,000 incentive grant. Could you share with the committee how these changes by the provincial Ontario government are going to affect recruitment in Ontario?