Thank you for that great question.
Absolutely. As I alluded to in my remarks earlier, pharmacists are doing everything they can and working within the full scope of current practice across the country, which is unfortunately quite fragmented.
In our province, Alberta, pharmacists are being immensely utilized. They are able to prescribe for many conditions. They are able to extend therapies, and they're able to do a lot of different things in terms of scope of practice. As primary care environments are more and more burdened, pharmacies are going to start becoming almost the sole universally available primary health care provider.
Being able to help patients and fill those gaps in primary care right now—obviously still in a collaborative way and interacting with our physician and nursing colleagues, but having the ability to exercise some of those things more independently, in a harmonized way across the country—is very much needed.