What we need to do is consider creating more spots for speech-language pathologists in schools. We need to consider more funding for jobs. Speech-language pathologists are subject to funding cuts and have been throughout this pandemic, so the government needs to be accountable for health care transfers that go to the provinces to support the vital funding that we need to support the jobs that are being cut. Lastly, we need to ensure that we have people coming into the profession by providing the right supports. Right now speech-language pathologists in particular are not the most well compensated, so with the move to private practice because there's a loss of jobs in the public sector, the government could look at supporting the right mixture of employment for speech-language pathologists.
We are losing people every day based on caseload, burnout and poor wages. This really is a concern, and once people go into private practice, they are faced with the same types of issues because there's a lack of funding for people in the community for the services they need. That also falls onto the other side of things in terms of how services are funded for the people who need them. For the public like you and me and our children, how do we manage insurance coverage? How do we manage the right supports so that people can manage access to services? There are a number of things.