Mr. Chair, I think we've come a long way in the last two decades. I've been doing palliative care since 1995, and over the years I've worked really hard to try to get palliative care integrated into curricula. It's a real challenge, and Dr. Roy alluded to some of that challenge as well, but there are ways of doing it.
I think it's unacceptable that specialists in internal medicine, cardiology, nephrology and respirology don't get core palliative care training. How can they inform their patients with the options appropriately when they don't have that training?
I think it's still not adequate that only 30% of medical students across the country have clinical rotations. We're not even speaking about nursing schools, because in nursing schools there are still major gaps in the curricula. We need resources. We need funding. I've experienced many push-backs, largely around how we don't have the resources, we don't have the space and we don't have the time, but we do, actually, and we can be innovative. There are examples across the country of how that can happen.
Thank you.