Mr. Chair, I could answer that question, but first I'd like to clarify that I referenced roughly 8,000 paramedics in the province of Ontario and the rate of 22% coming from just one of these studies, and there are many of them in different, I suppose, silos. One study we saw predicted 22%. That's how I came up with that 1,760 here in the province of Ontario alone. That doesn't include our communications officers in the ambulance world and then, of course, the other first responders in the community.
Mr. Poirier quoted 40,000 paramedics across Canada, and I agree with that number. If you take 22% of that, it's a much larger problem. I wish I could answer the question as to how many are off work. I wish I could tell you what the financial burden is that's associated with that. I wish I could tell you how many medical errors or risky behaviours we see in our communities.
Those are all types of research projects we've been embarking on and we would like to give you further information on, but again, as I stated earlier, we need broader collaboration to bring those research projects together so we could answer that question more clearly for you.