I can absolutely answer the six questions, yes. I appreciate it.
When it comes to how the actual residency matching process works, essentially in our final year of medical school we go through an electives process where we choose specific locations and programs that we want to visit and rotate through. We accumulate the different pieces of our application and then submit a final rank order of our preferred programs in those specific locations and then apply to the places we want to apply to.
We then hopefully get interviews at those places, interview, then submit our final order of preference and then the programs also submit their final order of preference for candidates.
Those orders, as well as our applications, go to an organization called CaRMS, the Canadian Resident Matching Service. They do a great job of running an algorithm that matches the student and the program, based on those factors that I outlined.
When it comes to the role government plays—I believe that was the next part of your question, with how government—