Debt is obviously an important factor, but in spite of everything, many young people nevertheless want to study medicine.
Many people can be good candidates for medicine. At a dinner at our clinic, about 15 of us were talking and said that, if we had to meet today's criteria, no one around the table would go into medicine. And yet there were specialists and general practitioners who were excellent physicians.
That means that perhaps we have to review some of our criteria. A number of people can become doctors in Canada, but unfortunately there aren't enough or capacity to train them. And yet there is a major shortage of physicians. That's why we need help.