Speaker, good morning. You’ll know out of the great representation that you do for the riding of Ajax that we have close to a million people in the region of Durham. They rely on, in many instances, community surgical and diagnostic centres in the region of Durham. We have across that region, as you know, probably about 20 of them at the present time, including the Oshawa community clinic that’s in close proximity to my riding.

Can the member from Newmarket–Aurora speak a little bit about how this proposed legislation further leverages community surgical and diagnostic centres to help the million people in the region of Durham?

Thank you to the member opposite for giving us all these questions. The newly proposed Integrated Community Health Services Centres Act will, if passed, protect patient safety through strengthening the quality assurance and oversight of the community surgical and diagnostic centres, ensuring that no centre can refuse an insured service to a patient who chooses not to purchase uninsured upgrades and no patient can pay to receive insured services faster than anyone else.

It also ensures that patients who are not able to have their complaints addressed at the centre can seek help from the Ontario Patient Ombudsman. It will also protect the stability of the health human resources—