David mentioned that the Community Health Centre is a multi-service centre and, in that respect, we truly are at the very core of primary health care services in Toronto. We offer a variety of services in this area and in French only.
We therefore have physicians, nurses, dieticians, social workers, mental health workers, etc. We have observed lately that Health Canada's recently funded regional French language health networks, through the Société Santé en français, are facing serious challenges in terms of their funding and their effectiveness. What Nicole and Jean-Marc had to say earlier is quite relevant, given that the Réseau franco-santé du sud de l'Ontario covers an enormous territory. This complicates matters when one wants to develop priorities at a local level because decisions will soon be made, in Ontario, by the LHINs, the Local Health Integration Networks, which make up the regional decision tables.
This lack of resources spread over a very vast territory presents serious challenges for implementing health language services in French. We would like the government to focus on this issue.