I appreciate the context, the additional parts of that.
We talk about the magnitude of the mental health crisis that we face in the country, and to me, it's just stunning, almost, in the one sense. Again, a public awareness campaign, particularly in the legal community, to say that these tools are there.... We're proposing additional ones as an extra factor, for sure, but just the magnitude of where we're at, that we have to go out and say that this is necessary in today's day and age.... When we talk about mental health and we talk about some of the rising crime rates, the fact that this is even on there, despite all the other factors you face, is incredible, to say the least.
Another part of the testimony that you gave in your opening was about having the credentials of international students or health care workers recognized. I think “chaos” would be an understatement of where the current system is at. Even in my part of the country—eastern Ontario, the city of Cornwall—the number of Filipino Canadians, for example, who have immigrated here and have a health care background but are unable to work at all, even in health care....
Can you talk about some of the things that the federal government can do?
We've been proposing, for example, a “blue seal” program, similar to the Red Seal program, that could help provide a path—not an automatic one, but a testing regime for provinces to opt in to, as they do for the Red Seal program. Could you elaborate a bit more about the current chaos around that and how that's hurting retention and attraction?