Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member and the speaker before him for thanking us for the tone of this debate and the non-partisan and impersonal debate it was, although it got a little more personal with our colleague there.
A question I asked earlier was answered in a different way and I will try again. One of the things I see in the document deals with two doctors and two nurse practitioners that will be put in the role of signing or agreeing with the documents. In the rural areas I am familiar with having that many doctors and nurse practitioners can be a challenge. The answer I got was, “That is why there are a lot of nurse practitioners.” In the rural areas I am familiar with there are more doctors than nurse practitioners. There are not many nurse practitioners.
We come down to the challenge in rural areas of those people being known. It is very tough in a smaller community for medical staff to be labelled with that kind of a role. How would my colleague deal with this in rural areas, realizing that nurse practitioners in some areas are not as plentiful as they are in other areas?