Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here today. I will share my time with Mr. Lunney. I just want to make a couple of comments here.
A couple of you, in my opinion, hit the nail on the head with a couple of things. One is that I think there is an opportunity to work with the medical professions to evaluate fee-for-service versus a primary health care model. In my small community in British Columbia, Sparwood, we've switched over to the primary health care model that we believe works far better than fee for service. We have three medical doctors, yet 20 minutes down the road in Fernie, which has 4,000 people, there are 18 medical doctors, most of them part time because they are there to ski. They are not there to actually ply the trade, but they can make enough money to stay there year-round. Someone mentioned social licence, and I think that's a significant issue in some areas.
Finally, I think that one of the things in British Columbia that has been an interest to watch over the years is that the province's implementation of the health authorities has been a failed project, I think. As far as I'm concerned, it's a buffer between municipalities and the province and it has become very challenging for even the medical profession to access who they need to access at the proper time.
These are a couple my comments because I wanted to allow Dr. Lunney to speak again.
Go ahead, Dr. Lunney.