Health committee  I would echo what's been said before. You can look at crazy definitions of rural as the number of Tim Hortons you have and set a level of that. But I really think it is a moving target and probably not worthwhile trying to pin down. In terms of your question about teamwork, I th

Health committee  I'd like to support the comments about lowering the interprovincial barriers, both from an educational point of view and a locum point of view. For people to be effective teachers, they need locums to do CME, and trainees need the flexibility of being able to train in different p

Health committee  I'll start. Then I'll turn it over to Michelle. The program you are referring to is the underserviced area program, UAP. The intent of the program is to try to allow communities some funding to be able to provide for recruitment. That is being reallocated, in essence, and it's f

Health committee  Good morning. Bonjour. Thank you to the committee for inviting the three of us to speak to you this morning. It's a privilege and an honour to be able to be here. What I hope to do in this five minutes is to provide you with a very brief overview of what the rural Ontario medic