Health committee  I would echo the leadership point. I'll make another comment along the lines of what's been said before on this topic. I just want to take you back. In 2004 we had SARS, and we developed a lot of plans for SARS. Then SARS went away and we stopped thinking about it. Then a pande

Health committee  The quick answer is yes, but I'm going to divert your question if that's okay, because we've talked a lot about education. There are all kinds of things we've talked about in terms of analogies to the opioid crisis. Climate change is actually another interesting analogy. What's

Health committee  I'll take a stab at that, and maybe Andrew can add something as well. I would say that the prescribing per se isn't regulated. Overall practice is what would be regulated. Certain types of prescriptions would be more regulated. For example, narcotic prescriptions have a regulat

Health committee  On that last question, I think the answer is no, and it's not just physicians. As we've talked about, this is really all health care providers, because not only is the prescribing expanding to go beyond physicians to include nurses and pharmacists, but also we work as teams. All

Health committee  I don't think we were involved at all.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the committee for examining this very important topic. I'm here on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as a Royal College specialist in public health and preventative medicine. The Royal College does not current