Finance committee  There can be a whole variety of incentive programs, but we are specifically looking at five key things that will make a difference: provide rural access scholarships to people from rural areas so they have a better chance to meet the financial obligations of medical school and be

Finance committee  It is a big problem. One of the things we need to do is make sure the family physicians who are in practice are provided the right kinds of supports, with a proper team, to help them in practice. This is particularly important in rural areas, where family doctors are in short sup

Finance committee  That's a very common problem. Medical education and tuition fees have gone up across the country. It's a bigger problem, particularly for people in rural areas. If you come from Goose Bay and go to university, you then have to pay additional costs compared to somebody who lives i

Finance committee  There is a myth that rural health care uses up a lot of the health care budget when in fact, on a per capita basis, rural health care is cheap, and it's cheap because people don't access health care. So we spend less per person in rural areas on health care than we do in urban ar

Finance committee  In your work and ours, one of the most important things in getting something done is having a chance. The Canada research chairs program, which is a federal program, has shown us how different areas of research are organized in a pan-Canadian way in universities across Canada. W

Human Resources committee  Our target should represent the same proportion as who is in rural Canada, which is about 20% to 30%, depending upon how you define rural Canada. There are a lot of barriers. One of them is that fewer rural kids go to university, to start with. All those who go to university ha