Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here. It's greatly appreciated.
Some of my questions have already been sort of touched on, so I'll try to touch a little bit differently on them.
Dr. Skarsgard, thank you for your presentation. You talked a bit in your point number one about dealing with the lack of skilled, specialized nurses.
One of the smartest, hardest-working and most compassionate people I know is my wife, Donna. She started her career as a neonatal intensive care nurse in the ICU at University of Alberta Hospital. Then she went to the ICU at the Hospital for Sick Children. She was there for a number of years, and we got married. She moved from there to Sunnybrook trauma centre. She did all this progressing as she went along.
Your comments about how we improve these nurses' skills and get them to be involved is very commendable, and it is something we need. Has the Pediatric Surgical Chiefs of Canada talked to the regulatory bodies or to the universities to look at providing these programs and how they can move forward on that?