I would just say, on the doctor shortage front, that our community grew at a terrible time. We grew at a time when we had cut the number of medical school slots in our province. We were just starting to see the effects of those cuts when we actually started to have our massive growth. So at our worst, 35% of our population didn't have access to a family doctor, and as a consequence they were all getting their total medical care—their annual checkups, and Pap tests for ladies—through the walk-in clinics and the urgent care facilities.
Ours is the second-busiest emergency room in the province of Ontario. It's not in downtown Toronto or downtown London. So there are urban places where these kinds of crises are happening, and we're in the middle of one of them in Barrie. That's part of the reason that's our passion with regard to the doctor shortage.
I was previously the chair of our physician recruitment task force, and when I first moved to Barrie it was not something I would ever have imagined us needing. I can say to you that we have really had to innovate to get our doctors on board.
In terms of technology, I can see the emergency room of our hospital from my office, but there are three traffic lights between there and my office, and I have to get parked. For me to run to emergency to see a patient versus having the technology to show me what the patient looks like can save me that dash and can sometimes save the patient's life. There is no difference between rural and urban when it comes to that kind of technology and that kind of communication.