The federal government has a significant role. For the last four years we have been harbouring under two sets of expectations. The first is the Agreement on Internal Trade. The changes to the chapter on labour mobility came into effect five years ago on April 1, 2009. These are federal-provincial-territorial agreements. They don't come out of health. They come out of labour and industry. So we have the Agreement on Internal Trade that nevertheless contains the chapter on labour mobility and includes the mobility of regulated professionals including health professionals.
The other one is the pan-Canadian framework for the assessment and recognition of foreign qualifications. These have been driving a lot of the work that we've been doing on national standards, but now there is the consequence of these agreements and these frameworks. We need to have the same locus. The discussions we had were coordinated through the federal government. That has to continue. There has to be a sustained effort to make sure that these agreements and these frameworks are not in fact resulting in unwanted and unexpected consequences. At the same time as we identify other opportunities, this discussion has to go on.