This problem results from infrastructure issues, the need to fast-track faculty, the need to support clinical placements, etc. We are asking for the full support we need to increase nursing education as well as support for infrastructure and clinical placements. We're asking for $135 million to support nursing education and $250 million to support 10,000 additional full-time RN positions. This is not a lot, really. Doctors got way more.
The difficulty is to get the support we need to produce these people. They're ready to come. Schools simply cannot accept the many who are waiting. That's a good thing, because in the U.S. that's not the situation. So that's a good thing for Canada.