Thank you, Madam Chair. We've certainly had interesting comments so far.
I want to pick up on the theme we're talking about in terms of rural health.
I come from the city of Barrie in the Simcoe County area. It is part of ROMP, which deals with the lack of doctors in rural areas. As you spoke, it made me think about some of the challenges we face and solutions that might exist to enhance health care in small towns and rural communities.
One project that I thought was particularly effective was a U of T pilot project whereby they trained some of their family doctors, 12 a year, in a rural setting as part of a hospital. Half of those who did that training stayed in Barrie. I remember when our committee went to Nunavut. We looked at telehealth and how it was enhancing the reach of health care services that would otherwise not be available.
Are there other ideas or other pilot projects like that, which you think would be particularly helpful to enhance the health care in those settings where we have significant physician shortages? I look at my town where 30,000 people are without a family physician. It is a real, tangible problem.