Thanks very much, Chair.
Thanks to all of the witnesses today. I'll take the opportunity to thank our nurses as well, on the occasion of a week of recognition for all their hard work.
I've had the opportunity to speak to some of you at previous meetings. I just wonder at what point the perfect becomes the enemy of the necessary—not even the good—just what we need to have happen so that we don't have more people running for the exits in the health care profession.
I have a couple of examples, and I've raised some of them with you before. We have virtual medicine apps, telemedicine apps, that are available where you can talk to a nurse practitioner and get a script instead of going to a doctor. We have electronic health records, so in the Canadian Forces, for example, it didn't matter which base or which physician's assistant I was talking to, because they punched in my service number and up came my record. I appreciate that, when we're talking about people's medical information, we have to be extremely careful. The highest sensitivity has to be paid to that. But do we not find ourselves where there are solutions out there that we could use, and is this a question of intergovernmental co-operation?
With that framing in mind, I would just ask, what are some things that could be done right now that would address even some of the low-hanging fruit, because I feel we have a lot of very big problems. Are there any short strokes that we can take to solve those as a country?
That question is for all of you, together.