Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Richard, if I can, I'll build on where we left off in the last round with the recognition of international students, nurses and health care workers, and some of the challenges.
I take your point as well of the apples to apples education and the standards here, with our post-secondary situation being different based on the country. However, I think one of the challenges that come from this is when new Canadians or immigrants arrive with a health care background who are given express entry and so forth because they have a health care background, yet at the end of the day they're not able to practise, or be on the path to be able to practise, between having none of their credentials recognized or no standard test to at least be able to be given entry.
The bottom line, I'd say, is it's like making a sausage. You'd never eat it if you saw it get made, in terms of how a person gets there.
Can you speak a bit about this, maybe from a New Brunswick perspective? There's obviously a gap, because there's always the intention of having express entry, but with the number who are actually able to go through and practise and have a proper path to be tested to get to a “yes” and get there, can you elaborate a bit more on some of those gaps?
I think it is important from the federal level to tie the intention with the actual frontline results at the end of the day.