Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have two questions for Dr. Downar.
I will say them quickly and leave you to answer them.
The first is that every part of medicine—being a physician myself—has a balance between specialty and primary care. That's why we have primary, secondary and tertiary care. Not everybody with diabetes needs an endocrinologist for care.
My understanding is that much palliative care is provided by family physicians. Does every patient who needs palliative care require full-speciality palliative care from a palliative care physician or can a properly trained, empathic, primary care physician provide high-quality palliative care to many patients? That's the first question.
The second one is that, at the risk of confusing palliative care with MAID, there has been discussion that resources provided to provinces have been allocated to MAID instead of to palliative care. I've looked at the federal Library of Parliament data that we just got. Maybe we can put it on the record that federal funding for palliative care has increased substantially since 2017 to 2018. What's your understanding of how this money has been used?