Thank you to our amazing official opposition finance critic, the member from Waterloo. You talked a lot about how the Minister of Health said that there’s no concern about family doctors in this province, but we are seeing evidence that new doctors are turning away from primary care: 108 of 560 spots in Ontario for family medicine training positions are going vacant. That’s 20% of those spots that are sitting vacant.

Dr. Risdon from McMaster said, “We are hearing from medical students that family medicine is a much less desirable career choice.”

We also heard from the OMA that students “don’t want to enter practice in a broken system.” We must address the problems and promote family medicine as a rewarding and impactful career choice.

So, the evidence is there. New recruits are turning away from this system while the minister is saying that there’s absolutely no concern. Would you like to add to this to say that the evidence is here that the system is broken?