I just wanted to add that this is a national political issue, and it is good to give a better system for repayment of your loans, but maybe we need to look at the tuition fees that these students are being asked to pay.
Like it or not, we used to have a system when I went to school where anybody could go to university. Now we have tuition fees in pharmacy of $8,000 per student, and really, we don't have the same universal access we had years ago.
The second thing we need to look at is expanding the enrolment in these areas. It frustrates me to no end that in Ontario we license 600 pharmacists every year; 300 of them come from outside the country. I have kids who may try to get into pharmacy some year, and their ability to get into those limited spaces is maybe going to keep them away from this profession. Meanwhile, we're taking these pharmacists from outside the country.
Why are we doing that? Why aren't we having our own kids in these institutions?