Health committee  The majority of [Technical difficulty—Editor] physicians actually practise outside of hospital settings. They're in the community and in private practices, often solo practices, so it makes it much more challenging to ensure their safety, particularly if it's a solo practice run by a female physician.

Health committee  Concerned Ontario Doctors is presently undertaking a survey of all of Ontario's practising physicians and medical trainees. We'll have more information, hopefully, by the end of the month. It addresses sexual harassment and violence, along with many other things. A survey of Canadian medical residents just came out a few months ago.

Health committee  The demographic of physicians here in Canada is changing dramatically. We now have more female than male medical students. In the coming decade we will have more female than male practising physicians, but there's also a changing demographic in terms of race. In urban centres such as Vancouver and Toronto, by 2031 it is projected that the majority of the practising doctors will actually be people of colour.

Health committee  Good afternoon. I'm a front-line physician practising in Brampton and Milton, Ontario; a medical educator; and the co-founder and president of Concerned Ontario Doctors. I thank you for the opportunity to address the Commons standing committee on health about your study into the violence faced by Canada's front-line physicians on behalf of Concerned Ontario Doctors, a grassroots, not-for-profit organization representing nearly 11,000 community and academic family physicians and specialists across Ontario.