Thank you.
We do know, according to the act, that we will be issuing licences and we know that we will need to have a system and materials developed in order for people to apply for licences. So, gradually, as we're working through that.... Without the regulations, you can automatically assume that there are certain things you're going to want to ask of the community in terms of their applying for a licence—certain common information that everyone is going to have to have. But the most important part is starting to build those systems so that we can have a complete system ready to go, an automated or virtual system whereby people can apply via computer, etc., so that it's not burdensome to the community.
The second major area in terms of this is outreach. It's really necessary to learn the business of the community that will regulated, to learn what they are doing, and to start to build those relationships, both with patient organizations who will have a very important role to play in this and with organizations such as the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, and the Canadian family physicians, many of whom—especially the family physicians—were not necessarily aware that some of their activities would be covered by the regulations.
So we've done some survey work with them to find out the practices in the field for both family physicians and gynaecologists, and we have been doing a lot of outreach.