Again, because of regulations at the provincial and territorial level, it is at a provincial or territorial level.
Where I do believe the federal government has a role, for example, is that the federal government does fund nurses right now. There's an e-platform that's supposed to capture the entire nursing workforce across Canada, because how can we plan for meeting the health care needs of Canadians if we don't know our true supply? When you think about workforce planning and supply distribution, we don't even know right now. We say we that have half a million nurses, but how many of them are engaged in the health side of the workforce, the publicly funded system?
I do believe that there should be levers from the federal government to the provinces and territories with our taxpayer dollars going through the federal government. This would ensure there's accountability to have the best possible evidenced-based workforce planning and distribution and workforce optimization solutions.