I was going to give you the actual calculations, and then we realized that the way people were reporting provisional licences was a bit different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. However, I did bring something with me from the registrar in Newfoundland and Labrador, Dr. Robert Young.
I can tell you the total number of IMGs who received new licences, both full and provisional, in 2009. I should tell you that in getting full licences, they may have moved from provisional to full, but there were 90 new licensures. Remember, Newfoundland is a smaller jurisdiction, and the total number of licences awarded to graduates of Canadian schools was 49, so there are jurisdictions...
Ontario is the other one. If you do the actual math, as I said, for the provisional licenses in Ontario, the data are pretty solid, but Ontario had a big splash last year. For two years in a row they licensed more international medical graduates--new licences--than they did graduates of Canadian schools.
This move to see this group of physicians as extremely valuable in the Canadian system is very much alive and well. What we want to do is make sure of, within the context of the agreement on internal trade, is that once they're licensed, they're also eligible for mobility. There is a lot of work to be done, but stay tuned.