Finance committee  I think the overall circumstance of health care in Canada is complex, so it would not be appropriate for me to say yes or no to that question because I'm certainly not an expert in that nature of health policy. What I can say is that, given the totality of what we're dealing with

Finance committee  We do talk about the equipment purchases. The vast majority of clinics that radiologists own outside of a hospital system have X-ray and ultrasound machines, and certainly that is a part of the process that they need to do. It's part of the incorporation process to do that. What

Finance committee  Our association does not collect information on what our members make. The purview of the Canadian Association of Radiologists is not actually towards income per se, because that's mainly a provincial jurisdiction. We don't dive into the fee-for-service environment, per se. We do

Finance committee  If the government were to listen to the small business sector and say, “Yes, we will engage We recognize that there are potential unforeseen circumstances and unintended consequences to this policy. We will not impose something that could have those consequences right now. We wil

Finance committee  It varies from circumstance to circumstance, and we don't have statistics per se on what the income of a radiologist is, but depending on your jurisdiction and the nature of your work, it will vary. What tends to happen is that radiologists will operate in groups. Because each of

Finance committee  We need to actually extend that out from the perspective of the individual circumstances of each of those radiologists. It may be that the incorporated radiologists have taken on more risk, for example. They have taken out leases, mortgaged their houses, mortgaged their resources

Finance committee  That's a very good question. I believe that in certain circumstances—and it depends on the province you're in—that is possible, but I am not a tax accountant nor a lawyer, so I would not pretend to have a definitive answer on that.

Finance committee  It's difficult to compare one to the other because the nature of what we do is so different. Some radiologists will take on risk because they have private clinics, for example, or they'll take on additional equipment. Others may not. It's difficult for me to say definitively yes,

Finance committee  It would be beyond my pay grade to suggest that I have the solution to the nature of physician pay, but I can say, as a physician and as a small business owner, that our community would be more than willing to interact with the government to talk about all of the different option

Finance committee  We don't have data per se. New Brunswickers, being Atlantic Canadians, were the most enthusiastic of those who reacted to this, and we have the best data from them because of their enthusiasm around this, and their concern. As well, probably because of the nature of that province

Finance committee  I can give you a concrete example. One of my colleagues, the chair of our board, is in Saskatoon. Their group was in the process of signing a lease—they were almost there—on a clinic they were going to open to treat a number of patients from Saskatchewan. The minute this came ou

Finance committee  We will.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee, hello and bonjour. My name is Dr. Emil Lee, and this is Mr. Nicholas Neuheimer, our Canadian Association of Radiologists CEO. I am a radiologist, a physician in the Fraser Valley, and the regional medical director of medical im