Health committee  As I mentioned in my presentation, we believe that we've tipped from being in a shortage environment to being in a surplus environment. In Canada we're producing more than 1,000 graduates from our own pharmacy schools—we're actually approaching 1,400—and we believe that, at least

Health committee  I don't have any numbers on that. But all I see from the information that is available from the current Canadian Pharmacist database is that over the course of probably five to eight years, the international graduates have now become one quarter of the labour force, if the number

Health committee  That's correct.

Health committee  Thank you. Our understanding is that the immigration quota is determined by CIC or the immigration group within the federal government. The last we understood, in the neighbourhood of 1,000-plus individuals were being allowed to immigrate into Canada. We would like to see the nu

Health committee  Good morning, all. Thank you to the chair for allowing me to make the presentation on behalf of the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada. As mentioned, I'm the executive director for the organization. I do have a pharmacy background as one of my first educational cred