Thanks, Ms. Baxter. I probably have time for one question.
Ms. Roussel, if you want to answer this after Ms. Baxter....
Ms. Baxter, in a letter published in the Toronto Star last year, you wrote:
We are at a crossroads: Awareness of hospice palliative care in Canada has never been higher with the recent media spotlight on assisted dying. We can either focus on making HPC a guaranteed right in the next Health Accord being negotiated right now, or we can engage in a re-branding exercise. We are largely a death-denying society and no matter its name, hospice palliative care will continue to be the pariah in the room until it is made a healthcare priority.
I think those were wise words.
In your view, should the federal government propose stand-alone funding for palliative care in the current health accord negotiations, rather than grouping it in the much broader home care envelope?