Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would first like to thank all of the witnesses for coming to talk to us about their innovation initiatives today.
My first question is for Ms. Thomassin and Ms. Lemire.
As you know, Quebec is always in the vanguard when it comes to certain projects, particularly in the socio-medical field. If I understand correctly, the UQTR multidisciplinary clinic offers health care to the public in the region and to employees, retired employees and their families, in a training environment designed for students in a number of health care disciplines. It offers on-going care, particularly in speech therapy and occupational therapy. I applaud that initiative. I was one of the physicians when I did my residency in Quebec. At that time, I said that the best thing was for physicians to be multidisciplinary in a closely related field. I see here that you are ahead of the physicians. I therefore applaud the work you are doing. This might be a case of best practices that could be reproduced elsewhere in Canada.
Do you know whether there are models like yours elsewhere in Quebec or Canada? What is the main obstacle to setting up a clinic like yours?
I would also like to focus a little on access to health care and ask you whether a clinic like yours means that waiting time for seeing a general practitioner or specialist physician can be reduced.