Okay. I'll be very quick.
Actually, there is no problem with the application demand. The pool of applicants for nursing is very, very high. As I said, we have been graduating over 12,000 annually for the last five years. That's higher than it's ever been. There is no problem in terms of attracting applications, and they're high-quality applications. The problem is keeping nurses in the workforce. It's the attrition and the retention of nurses that have been an issue. Many leave within months of entering the profession.
In terms of international education, this has a lot to do with the regulatory bodies that license the internationally educated nurses. The process is slow. There is an evaluation process that is time-consuming. I don't have the statistics, but I believe a high number of internationally educated nurses in Canada would like to join the nursing workforce.
From a regulatory point of view, I cannot speak for those processes and what needs to be evaluated there. But from the education perspective, this is one area where we could have a potential solution—that is, speeding up and standardizing the bridging programs that internationally educated nurses often have to be involved in. I believe there have been some initiatives in Ontario around that, with government support of bridging programs for internationally educated nurses. That is an area that I think is well worth pursuing and could support an increase—