Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.
I think we tend to focus on the IMGs, the international medical graduates, as being a solution to our physician and health resource problems here. They are a small part of that solution. Certainly I can understand why we're focused on them, because it's certainly going to help in the short term. But I'd like to reiterate Dr. Kuling's point, which was we really do need a more sustained, self-sufficient source of physicians. From my readings and my understandings, the studies indicate that when IMGs tend to arrive here, they will locate often in rural areas because that's where their positions are, but they eventually, after a few years only, are often migrating to the cities, to the urban centres. There are good statistics to show that, but I don't have them in front of me here today.
So as much as we would look to the IMGs as being a solution, they're a small part of the solution, and I'm hoping that we're coming up with a better long-term strategy for this. I also don't agree with the ethics of taking away physicians from other countries, just as we wouldn't want 200,000 physicians, every single physician we produce here, to be drained to the United States.
So I think we have to be cognizant of the big picture, and I appreciate that. Thank you.