Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to our witnesses for being here today.
I want to focus my questions on the shortage of additional health care staff, as alluded to in the opening statements.
For context, I'm proud to represent and work with the community of Akwesasne in my riding of Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, and while not being remote, it is an example that certainly speaks to the challenges of attracting and retaining health care staff. Dr. Ojistoh Horn is the only full-time general practitioner at one of the clinics in Akwesasne, for example, a community of 25,000. She works with two nurse practitioners who cover about 14,000 patients.
There was a good CBC article that came out at the beginning of the pandemic, and it notes—to get into my question—that even before the pandemic, as Mr. Hayes alluded to in his opening comments, there were some challenges already arising. This was before the pandemic exacerbated the challenges.
Mr. Hayes, for statistics purposes, there's one thing I was wondering. You provide data on the services being met or not met during the pandemic. To give us a context, do you have—and if not, the deputy minister might be able to provide our committee with this—an idea of the request for services prepandemic and what was met and not met so that we can understand perhaps the volume and percentage of success in meeting those requests? Did you look at that data, and if not, can we get that?