National Defence committee  Yes. The Quebec government has mental health care and elder care strategies. What I have bemoaned for a very long time is that these elder care strategies have been a low priority and the result has been much more carnage in Quebec than in the other provinces and other industrial

National Defence committee  No, I absolutely did not say that, Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe. What I said—

National Defence committee  No, that is not what that means. It means that all of Canada's scientists will be able to work together to set best clinical practices, as they do in other fields. You know, science doesn't stop at the border between Quebec and Ontario. Science is happening across Canada and aro

National Defence committee  I always accepted that Quebec needs to conform to the highest standards of practice. Whether it's service quality, treatments or diagnostic methods, Quebec must be at the cutting edge of national, Canadian and international standards.

National Defence committee  You are putting words in my mouth, Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe. I didn't say that.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for the question. I agree because, in every other field of medicine, we have standards, either Canadian or international, for treating diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, obesity and heart disease. These standards must be based on the best scientific evidence avai

National Defence committee  Can you hear me okay? I switched headsets.

National Defence committee  Okay. I believe that we need more health care funding federally and provincially. However, as I said earlier, continuing to invest in boosting physician pay and concentrating health care in hospitals is the wrong approach.

National Defence committee  When I hear in the Speech from the Throne that there is a real focus on home-based care and residential care services, it's music to my ears. There is an important negotiation to be made with the provinces to ensure that this money is really directed to home-based care and instit

National Defence committee  Yes, there is duplication in certain areas. At the time, it was in mental health and in areas such as health care for indigenous people. I believe we can succeed in reaching an agreement on eliminating this duplication. We have so little funding for health care that we have to b

National Defence committee  If, within the past few years, Ottawa had announced billions of dollars in funding for home care, the problem I see is that this money wouldn't necessarily go toward home care, but—

National Defence committee  —instead to the provinces' priorities, and it would perpetuate a hospital-centric model that results in failing to take care of seniors who are losing their independence, and their numbers are increasing. Quebec will be one of the oldest provinces in barely a decade and one of th

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe. Federal transfers have indeed gone down. What I found most worrisome is that, under the Conservative government, federal transfers were not always evenly distributed. Not only were transfers capped at a certain percentage of gross domes

National Defence committee  To me, this issue is that, even with more funding, there would not be more money for institutional and home-based care. If the past is any guide, the provinces will need to reach an agreement with the federal government in order to set priorities other than hospitals and physici

National Defence committee  As I was saying, I support the comments that Ms. Estabrooks has just made. I completely agree with her analysis. Since we have less time to address you, I'm going to focus instead on a number of facts that should outrage all Canadians. In this first crisis, Quebec experienced t