Health committee  It's hard for me to speak to regulatory issues. I think it's not dissimilar with positions.... There's a skill set that is applicable regardless of the province in which you practise. You need to meet provincial regulatory requirements, but there's a commonly accepted set of prac

Health committee  If you were to do an adaptation, if a pharmacist were to renew your prescription, we are talking about a $15 fee. In British Columbia, for a patient to go for a basic 0100 family physician visit, that's in the neighbourhood of $40 to $65, so certainly economically the numbers are

Health committee  Absolutely. I think we saw 20 or 30 years ago how dependent Canada was on foreign-trained physicians who came from places like England, Scotland and Ireland. We're seeing pharmacists come from around the world. Canada is a good place to practise pharmacy, so we are certainly seei

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. I will apologize to the interpreters from earlier for being trop vite. That's bad French, but there you go. If we look across the country, Alberta really has set the stage for demonstrating what pharmacists can and should be doing in terms o

Health committee  Yes, absolutely. In British Columbia, we have adaptation and renewal rights, and our college, in fact, is looking at expanding those at this time. Throughout the pandemic, for two years, many patients were getting their prescriptions renewed by their physician over a telephone ca

Health committee  I want to acknowledge that today I'm speaking to you from the traditional territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam first nations. The COVID pandemic has shown both the weaknesses in our health care system and the resilience of our health care providers, who have