Thank you for the question.
What we're looking for there is this. We heard in the election campaign this figure of $3.2 billion for improved access to primary care, and I think where we see that making an impact is on really trying to address what is making primary care not work today. I think you've heard from us today about what many of those issues are. We'd like to see those dollars directed at moving towards integrated, team-based care and really changing that model of care so that patients have a medical home with a variety of providers who can meet their needs. This, in turn, will create a better working environment for family doctors, make family medicine more attractive and appealing—therefore, retaining the people who are already family doctors in longitudinal practice. At the same time, it will make it a more appealing area of specialization for our new medical graduates, as well as allowing other health care professionals to work at top of scope in a team, which also will increase their job satisfaction. It builds on itself in terms of the success it would bring in that regard and in improving access to care for Canadians.
That's really where we would like to see that money go. Again, we know that just having more doctors isn't the solution in and of itself, because if those physicians are not satisfied in their work environment, or that work environment is broken, they are going to leave and do other things. That's what we're seeing now. Many family physicians are practising medicine, but they're not practising in a primary care model in a community with a patient roster. Those dollars could go to changing that practice environment so that family doctors actually want to be family doctors, and that people who want to work in these teams providing primary care to Canadians are able to do so longitudinally.