This is exactly the experience. We see a lot of barriers. For the reasons I mentioned earlier, The College of Family Physicians, which sees a lot of women in the more rural or remote communities, very much adheres to the Canadian task force guidelines. They have extremely busy practices. They're seeing all aspects of medical problems and they don't have the time to get informed, so they rely very heavily on the Canadian task force guidelines.
This is a recurrent theme. We have thousands of people across the country who tell us their family physician refused them screening in their forties, even though the task force does acknowledge that it should be an informed decision. They are simply following the final guideline to not recommend routine screening for these women. The biggest reason these guidelines are so harmful is that they will pose a barrier.
Once the guidelines recommend that a woman can self-refer—when she's 40 to 49—there are outreach programs occurring across the country in different screening programs. We have some programs with mobile vans or coaches that go to different underserved communities. We have screening programs in the Northwest Territories and in Yukon. We're trying to establish this now in Nunavut.
It is feasible, but the message of not recommending routine screening is the most harmful. That is really where we have to focus, to start.