Thanks.
I trained in a centre that did a few hundred bowel surgeries a year. In France, care has been very centralized toward centres that they call “of excellence”, where they have all these multidisciplinary approaches. What's really beautiful about the process is that there's a pathway for every patient. When they come in, they expect to have such imaging, they expect to see the surgeon and they have the fertility specialist right next door. For the surgery, everything gets combined and they're all in the same vicinity.
This is possible in academic centres here in Canada as well. It's a model that we can definitely reproduce—and we have with the opening of our centre, so we're very happy about that. We're not the only ones in Canada; many people here have done an excellent job as well.
I think all of these are attainable goals as long as the government sees the importance of investing in this.
We alluded to the provincial and federal governments having different roles in all of this, but I think if the provincial sees the importance, the province will necessarily follow.