Right.
Building on that, I want to ask about the level of care. Based on the calculations that are done on how many doctors we need, in the context of a strained health care system, where we have doctors who specialize in areas that they like or are most proficient at, and they also then lend themselves in areas where they're needed—they do extra rotations in hospitals or, in the context of COVID, they're working at COVID centres—are the doctors providing the level of care that Canadians need and that doctors want to be able to provide to Canadians?
We hear an awful lot about Canadians who are frustrated that they don't get an annual physical or that they can have only one issue per visit. I hear that all the time, that the docs only have time to deal with one issue per visit. There are delayed routine screenings and delayed or cancelled care appointments. This stuff was happening before COVID, and it was exacerbated during COVID.
This list is not a.... It seems that these are all symptoms of doctors who have too many patients and are doing too many things. So is the number of doctors that we need really more than just to serve 4.7 million? Do we have an awful lot of Canadians right now who are on the list at a physician's office, but that doctor can't provide the level of care that they would like to provide or that the individual would like to receive?