Canada remains a country of a few dense urban concentrations and a large number of far flung medium and smaller communities. Our greatest challenges in EM today are overcrowding and understaffing. Crowding is almost universal; staffing is most difficult in the medium and smaller community settings, many of them not far from major centres. It is difficult to discern how eliminating our CFPC training route would help with either challenge. AbuLaban makes a comparison between emergency care and obstetrical care. It isn’t a bad comparison. Many family doctors deliver babies in communities with no obstetricians. Some family doctors have extra training and do a great deal of obstetrical care, often side by side with obstetricians. They teach and do research and contribute to policy. They have demonstrated superior outcomes to their obstetrical colleagues in some populations in C-section and episiotomy rates. No one would suggest we do without obstetricians, but family physicians with an interest in obstetrics make significant contributions and provide a different approach and perspective based on their training and clinical experience. Twenty-five years into a grand experiment, we should be celebrating our suc