I can comment on that.
You are right that if you are a Canadian-trained, Canadian-credentialed physician, you are eligible for licensure in any province or territory. It's not an issue that you won't be licensed. You just have to go through the steps to obtain the licence. The requirements for that are the same. That's not always necessarily true if you're internationally trained, but it is if you're Canadian-trained.
I think we're starting to see some shift in terms of people's willingness. Again, the regulatory bodies all have their way of doing things. I think everyone naturally thinks their way of doing things may be the best or the safest. I think we see that protectionism in many aspects of how people work. But I do think the pandemic has shifted that. I think people are starting to see now the need for more co-operation, the need to be able to leverage virtual care, the crisis that the health workforce is in, and the need to sort of back away from some of these more protectionist ideas and to more of a collaborative lens.
It doesn't mean there would be no role for the provincial regulatory bodies. It would be more about creating opportunities to collaborate and reimagine this somewhat. There would still be responsibility for them and a role for them to play. But I think we probably are closer to that reality than we were prepandemic. I think if you had asked people the same question three years ago, they might have said they were really far off from that ever happening. I think we're closer now. I think it's just going to need that kind of final push to get it over the finish line.
In my view, if we were able to pivot an entire country to virtual care essentially within 48 hours, I think we can achieve this as well.