Thank you, Anita. What a nice treat to see you.
I think it is historical gender equality. It's 2023 and it's time for that to be called out.
The issue with data is that we do not have it. I went online today to see what my wait time is for hysterectomies here in Calgary compared with other colleagues, and the data is blank. It is not there. Without asking the question, we don't have the answer.
The suggestion I have is to make a push to the provincial ministries of health to quantify this, to prioritize gendered procedures and ask the question.
Hopefully members of the committee have time to take a look at that excellent Canadian study that did look at the cost per surgery and what physicians and surgeons are paid for surgery. When you look across the country, surgery for endometriosis is not paid well.
To the last point, we can bring in more surgeons for endometriosis—excellent surgeons from outside of Canada—but without operating room time and access, it does not change the wait times for patients, so bringing in more physicians can't be stand-alone.