Thank you. I really appreciate that question.
It's important to recognize what we're proposing to be centralized, which is data to be standardized. Right now, the data collected by medical regulatory authorities, even on the medical profession represented by my colleagues here, which Dr. Lefebvre has noted is excellent information, is not data that goes to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The data collected by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada—and it's extensive—on medical students also doesn't align with the data collected by medical regulatory authorities and what goes to the Canadian Institute of Health Information, so our proposal is to have standardized data.
An excellent way to standardize data would be to have a system of pan-Canadian registration, and this is really important. We are not suggesting that health workforce planning be undertaken at a national level. That's not an appropriate level for that to happen. What we are suggesting is that there would be standardized data collected in the same way that StatsCan collects standardized data through the census on the population, and that then the provinces, territories, regions, hospitals and medical institutions could do some planning.
Right now, the data is siloed across jurisdictions, across organizations within a profession and also across the professions. If we could bring those together, that's what we're talking about with data infrastructure. In our conversation with folks in Quebec, they said they would very much welcome that and the development of tools to help them to do much better planning at a local level, which is the most appropriate place for it.
I hope that has answered your question.