There are right now, as we speak, 1,500 young Canadians born here, educated here, with undergraduate degrees here who are going to medical school in foreign countries because they can't get a place in Canada. The federal government could have a role in helping repatriate them, because we know from statistics that these students tend not to come back, and we're losing young talent. That's one of the deficiencies that's happening as a result of our inability to create spaces in Canada. But certainly in the short term we should be trying to encourage those 1,500 young Canadians to come back to Canada and practice.
On May 27th, 2008. See this statement in context.