Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for coming today.
I know several of my colleagues are perhaps more interested in provincial initiatives then in what you do. Personally, I take great interest in your initiatives and, specifically, in what the Northern Ontario School of Medicine does. I think the Quebec government has much to learn from the way you manage the school and the actions you took. As you mentioned it, Dr. Strasser, I believe things are starting to move in Quebec. For instance, the department in Chicoutimi and several other Quebec schools are taking measures that are somewhat similar to what you did.
As Mr. Malo mentioned, yesterday we met some people from the Canadian Federation of Medical Students who talked about your school with great admiration.
I would like to know what the comparative retention rates are for physicians working in urban and rural settings. I guess there are major differences that are not only related to the place where the physician was recruited and the location where he got his training. Can you provide us with any data and statistics on the comparative retention rates for these two types of areas?