Thank you.
The internationally educated health professionals initiative has been established to accelerate and expand the assessment and integration of internationally educated health professionals into the health care system. The federal government has committed $75 million over five years to this initiative. We work with the provinces, whose responsibility it is to integrate them into the health human resource population within the province. They also have the $18 million per year on the health human resource strategy itself that they can use for that impact.
In terms of the Health Council, they can draw up to $10 million per year. I believe in the last year they drew under $7 million, so it's clear that their funding is adequate for what they want to do. They can continue to increase their draw to a maximum of $10 million per year.
Health Canada does not have a mandate to collect information from the provinces. It was the Health Council of Canada that was given the mandate, with the health accord, to do the reporting at the provincial and territorial levels. As I said, their next report is expected out in about three weeks' time.