Health committee  I can comment on that. You are right that if you are a Canadian-trained, Canadian-credentialed physician, you are eligible for licensure in any province or territory. It's not an issue that you won't be licensed. You just have to go through the steps to obtain the licence. The r

Health committee  No, I would agree. I don't think there's a single solution, but I think some of the things we have heard.... The other thing we have seen to be effective in some settings is having access to a scribe, someone who's working with you, documenting for you, filling out the forms as

Health committee  To add to what we've already heard when we've been talking about data today, I think it's really important that it be standardized and that it is being used for the right reasons. What we really want to see is a data-driven, outcome-based system so that we're using the data to ma

Health committee  I'll make a comment from the medical side. Right now we don't have enough seats in our medical schools for the number of people who want to train to be physicians. They are oversubscribed, and that's why you see many Canadians choosing to go overseas, primarily to Ireland and A

Health committee  I think there are a few things. One of the biggest challenges in remote areas, both for patient care and potentially for the idea of decentralizing some aspects of medical education to improve access for rural and remote Canadians, is the Internet itself. I'm speaking to you from

Health committee  I think I was just going to echo what Mr. Guest said. I think it is really about leveraging all possibilities. I also agree that no one of those things on its own is going to be the full solution. Nonetheless, they're all opportunities to bring more people into the system. Again,

Health committee  I think leadership to define that the integrated team-based care is the gold standard and the future. That needs to be the model. Anything less than that is not going to cut it in 2022, so we need to define ourselves from that benchmark moving forward.

Health committee  Is that question for me?

Health committee  I'll let someone else talk, because I've talked lots.

Health committee  I can make some comments, and then, of course, I would love to hear from the two family medicine experts we have here today. I have really tried to take their approach in this role. The CMA has really tried to take the approach of listening to the people that are experts in fami

Health committee  I don't have a direct answer for that, because I'm not familiar with exactly how each jurisdiction is collecting statistics. I think we see different jurisdictions reporting different numbers and different things at different times, and some things, on the surface, at least, seem

Health committee  I can comment. As my other colleagues have said, I think it's challenging in that it's not just one issue. The funding is one aspect of it for sure, but again there's also the challenge around the capacity of having the physician assessors able to take on more of these folks to

Health committee  Thank you for the question. What we're looking for there is this. We heard in the election campaign this figure of $3.2 billion for improved access to primary care, and I think where we see that making an impact is on really trying to address what is making primary care not work

Health committee  I can comment on that if you like. I do think that is a good framework. I agree that those things all interact with each other, absolutely. I think, again, burnout really directly relates to mental health for many providers. The more you're burnt out in your work, the less joy

Health committee  I think it would be very important. I think we're starting to see growing alignment on what the priorities are and what the challenges are, but it is very difficult to move from this conversation to the action without the resources. I think that next phase of funding and providin