Thank you for the member opposite’s question, because it allows us to once again highlight all of the investments that we have been making.

You talk about the challenges that are happening in our hospitals and emergency rooms today. Imagine if we had continued on the path that the Liberals had started us on. Imagine if we hadn’t actually invested and ensured that more physicians, more nurses, more PSWs were trained, hired and actually working in our system.

As recently as this morning, we were able to highlight another addition that will ensure that more people are protected—by allowing pharmacists to actually not only dispense but give Paxlovid. It means that those individuals who are at a higher risk of having symptoms that lead to an emergency department or a hospital now can get that prescription dealt with and filled in a pharmacy.

These are the things we are doing that are making a difference and ensuring that our emergency departments and our hospitals are protected.

But imagine if we didn’t have 49 different communities with 911 models of care that allow community paramedicine and paramedics to divert people who choose to willingly go to pathways other than an emergency room. Imagine if we didn’t have Ornge ambulance, having virtual medical doctor trials in northern hospitals.

We have made lots of investments that have made a difference in communities. We will continue to make those investments because we understand that as our population increases, they not only need homes; they need hospitals, and they need health care workers. We are doing that work.

We’ve seen, in one program alone, the Emergency Department Locum Program—temporary summer locum program has been extended, and, as a result, has provided funding for over 230,000 hours of emergency department coverage in 2022.

We have, for the first time in decades, ensured that we’re going to have two medical schools, one in Brampton and one in Scarborough.

We have ensured that residency programs are increased so that individuals who want to practise in the province of Ontario have that opportunity, because we embrace them here in Ontario.