Thank you very much, and thank you again to all the witnesses. It's been great testimony today.
I'm participating from my constituency of Yukon.
I have lots of specific questions. To frame this, clearly we're addressing a crisis in child health care. We need to look at the short term and the long term, as well as child and youth health, and as a public health physician, of course, that's an interest of mine. We must also recognize the overlap between health care access as a determinant of child health in terms of the backlogs that have been described today. How do we set ourselves up for addressing backlogs, the capacity of our workforce and access to primary care, but also for the longer term?
On the performance side, when we spend so much as a country, why do we seem to be getting less value for our dollar and how do we get more efficient with our dollars? Thus, I think of that federal role. Should we not be demanding results on how we fund on behalf of Canadian citizens? When we're offering money, what are the outcomes we should be asking for? Even though we don't get into the weeds, we need to be able to, I think, demand outcomes in improvement and performance.
Dr. Doan, I was really interested in your testimony. One thing I am concerned about is the access to the family doctors inhibiting access to mental health services. That's worrying to me.
I love how, with development of the MyHEARTSMAP, you're getting more self-management, which is almost like self-triage in a way. However, given that I think we're going to be facing a shortage of doctors for years to come, how do we get beyond...build primary care and self-management and enhance access to mental services, making that whole referral pathway more efficient?