Health committee  I just had one point that I think we could be helpful with. I think one of the messages that I'd like to see strengthened is the importance of health promotion and disease prevention. We could actually keep people from the hospitals, from the wait times, by really promoting a str

Health committee  I was almost wrapping up. It just seems like a very inefficient use of health care dollars to have essentially three different visits in order to be able to answer the question for this person about how to safely and effectively use L-carnitine.

Health committee  Absolutely: to include the substances that we're trained to use safely and effectively.

Health committee  Just to give you some examples of barriers for us, we have a lot of training in different kinds of natural health products, and one of the barriers is access to the substances that we have training in. I'll give you three examples. The first two examples are about access to the

Health committee  Oh, that's fine.

Health committee  It's great to be here today. Thanks for the opportunity. Naturopathic doctors' services are covered under extended health care plans, but not under any publicly funded plans. Patients taking a proactive approach to health by seeing an ND are therefore eliminating any financial b

Health committee  We recommend that the federal government: provide leadership and support for the development of fully integrated collaborative health care teams; provide leadership to ensure that all health care professionals are able to practice to their full scope, therefore addressing the sho