I'll add one point about the data collection. I think you're really asking if we have the information now to plan and say how many of these we will need. That becomes very difficult when you're looking at a smaller population, and we're also working within a provincial health system.
In many communities, even if we could take some of the modelling methods to establish how many nurses you need, when you translate that down to a very small community of, let's say, 600 and use traditional needs-based modelling, you may actually end up with one-quarter or one-half of a nurse, depending. Then it becomes very difficult, because you can't hire half a nurse or a quarter of a nurse in a remote or isolated area.
So sometimes the traditional methods don't work. That's why we're starting to work with the communities and first nations nationwide and region-wide in developing a health human resource planning tool they could use in the community--a tool that's based on the pan-Canadian framework and based on needs-based planning--so that they can start taking a look at the resources they have within their communities and ask what the best mix is of the resources that they have for their needs. Do the people have the right education? We have this many nurses and this many of these other paraprofessionals; maybe we need more of this or more of that. This is to help them plan at the community level, because traditional data modelling methods just don't work in those small areas.