Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for the invitation to speak on the issue of Canada's health workforce, an issue of critical importance.
I'm coming to you from Ottawa, the traditional, unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people, to whom I pay respect.
My name is Ivy Bourgeault. I am speaking on behalf of the Canadian Health Workforce Network, a pan-Canadian knowledge exchange network of researchers and knowledge users—