Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. We appreciate the kind remarks. Across the country, community health centres are a patchwork. Unfortunately, both at the federal level and the provincial level, there simply hasn't been a commitment to shifting the emphasis of primary health care towards an integrated approach whereby health professionals—physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, dieticians, and others—are brought out of their silos into the team setting.

Health committee  Thank you, Jane. We believe this is where our association, our members, can share unique insights into what it takes at a community level across the country to truly improve health and prevent illness and injury among Canadians and their families. While healthy public policy, as Jane described, is critical so that we can ensure the fundamental pre-conditions for Canadians achieving health, public policy alone is not enough.