Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I thank all the witnesses for their valuable testimony.
I will put my questions to Dr. Perrault.
Denial is a refusal to take into account part of reality. Yet the federal government is stubbornly waiting for the pandemic to end to provide structural, recurring and substantial funding to address the part of reality it does not seem to be taking into account: patients who have not contracted COVID‑19. So it has adopted a piecemeal approach and provided one-off investments to address a part of reality.
Can you talk to us about the consequences of such stubbornness in a living environment as critical as cardiology? Can you remind us of the consequences of waiting like this?
We are in the sixth wave of the COVID‑19 pandemic, but from the first wave, we have been seeing this same reality, that the system was too fragile and that there would be very long–term repercussions on patients.