My next question is for both for the Registered Nurses' Association and for the VON. I want to thank you both for the services that your members provide. My mother received services from the VON that were very helpful, and I appreciate that. I know that millions of Canadians receive those same services.
Why aren't more students choosing to train as nurses? What can we do to encourage them? Secondly, what more can we do to help nurses who were trained abroad to have their qualifications and work experience recognized?
A few years ago, I was hospitalized with pneumonia. The nurse from the Philippines knew more than the doctor who was assigned to me. I was suspected of having tuberculosis. She told me that she came from the Philippines, where she had dealt with people with tuberculosis for 25 years, and that she knew I didn't have it. But the doctors had that on my chart.
I would like to hear your views.