Thank you both for being here. This is certainly a problem we've been trying to wrestle with. How do we make it easier for foreign-trained graduates to get licensed?
Apparently, we budgeted $150 million, I believe, to help the foreign credential recognition programs. I think that was broken down so some of that money could be used to help with costly exams. Okay, I can see that. There's the cost of navigating the difficult credentialing program. Okay, I can see that.
Then there was some mention of more residency programs, although I think someone here then mentioned that was provincial jurisdiction. I would suggest, with the federal spending power, the federal government could work with the province to help create further residency programs. Could it not?
During this study, I remember asking the dean of Queen's University's medical school, I think, or it may have been the nursing school, if they would or could take more people to train. They said that, yes, they could.
Is some of the money in the $150 million going towards creating more residency programs?