Ms. Vance, I want to put some data collected by the Canadian Institute for Health Information to you. It says the number of pharmacy graduates in Canada dropped from about 1,300 in 2016 to 1,256 in 2019 and 1,255 in 2020, while the number of pharmacists in Canada increased over that period from 34,000 to 44,000. When I looked a little further, the data also showed that in 2020 international graduates accounted for 34% of the overall supply of pharmacists.
What can you tell this committee about where Canada is getting our pharmacists from? It seems to be a bit of a success story in terms of our ability to attract foreign-trained pharmacists and get them working in this country, which is not necessarily the case for other professions. What can you tell us about that?