Yes. Absolutely.
Prior to my medical education, I did a lot of work in my undergraduate degree in the province of B.C. through the BC Federation of Students. One of the big surveys and studies we did was around fairness for international students. I met with students on a regular basis who had the exact training that you talked about but were unable to make that next step in bringing those qualifications forward.
I think some key things need to be looked at within immigration policy. Oftentimes, we bring them here and we train them in certain fields, but when it comes to getting the immigration points that they need to be able to transition, they have higher immigration points by being a manager at McDonald's than they would by being a teller at a bank or a health care aide or some of these other components. The way the immigration scale works in order to give them those points to become Canadian citizens is more fruitful in other areas.
The other thing we could do is work with our post-secondary partners to create bridging programs that build in some of that English-language competency but also transitions them to meet the accreditation standards we have within our programs that theirs may be missing. There are some differences in care that we are learning, but there are some really practical solutions. We have leaders across this country in both undergraduate and medical education who want to see this work come forward. Unfortunately, if we do this work, we don't necessarily have the ability to implement it without some changes taken by the federal government to ensure that we can do that in a good way.