Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to say how wonderfully efficient we are today. We've gone through many rounds of questions, which is unusual for us. There were no interruptions from bells, which is also great.
I'll respectfully disagree with one of my colleagues, Mr. Van Koeverden, who talked about whether we have the solutions. Part of the difficulty here is understanding the breadth of this problem and the significant change required. We need people. We need to create physicians and nurses, and that takes time. We also understand there's a tremendous shift away from choosing family medicine as a profession. We heard about the unmatched seats during the CaRMS process, and that is a tremendous change we've seen over the last generation or so. To me, that creates a significant problem.
There are two other comments I would like to make, and then I will farm out some questions.
First, team-based care is exceedingly inefficient. I've practised team-based care at a chronic pain clinic for the last 15 years or so, and the speed with which we're able to see patients is much slower. We have to discuss them and we have to chart them, etc. That's a difficulty.
Second, I'm not entirely sure the government understands how dire the situation is. I'm not entirely certain that every Canadian understands how dire the situation is. Because team-based care is a significant part of the road map here, I would like to ask Dr. Bouchard to comment on the inefficiency of team-based care. There certainly are many cases in family medicine—and I understand that I'm biased because I'm a late-generation family doctor—where you don't necessarily need to see a team. How do you sort that out?