Yes, they should, with the proviso that they are not exclusively medical-modeled. The community worker who changes the light bulb in the corridor going to the bathroom is not providing health care. But if the client falls and breaks her hip because there's no light in the corridor to the bathroom, then there's really expensive health care. So yes, if it's going to be under the Canada Health Act, that's terrific, but it can't be exclusively medical. That's the problem with the Community Care Access Centre: they are providing acute care or care immediately after acute episodes of illness. Chronic care and frail elderly care is lost. And I'm not saying don't do the acute care; I'm saying don't forget this other care.
One of the reasons it's poorly funded, poorly understood, is that it doesn't fit anywhere comfortably. It's a little bit of many, many things.