Yes, absolutely. I can give you some concrete examples of our network here in Ontario with the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council. At our health care council, we are actually status-blind when it comes to providing service to indigenous peoples: first nations, Métis and Inuit. We have entered into a lot of relationship agreements with our first nation communities to bring care into those communities.
Where we are challenged, of course, is in our ability to have enough service capacity to do that. Right now, we are also trying to increase our capacity in the number of positions and primary health care providers that we get so that we can further our scope and our outreach.
We are also in relationship with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, to talk about how we train our students, how we connect the western and traditional approaches to medicine and how we promote that internally in our communities.
The other thing that is advantageous to our system is bringing things such as presurgical clinics into the communities and gathering people who can do that, screening buses and things like that, where you can have captured people actually go for care. The other thing we have done is to institute mobile units. We were fortunate enough to get funds during times of COVID-19 to use as mobile units for testing assessments for COVID-19. We now have an opportunity and a system to have that for primary health care service delivery, which can take those services into the community to do more of those prevention type things.
Those are the things that we need to invest in to be able to take more services to the communities. Instead of communities having to go to where those services are, we need to look at the opposite to make sure that the accessibility is there.