Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would now like to turn to Mr. Gariépy and address the issue of professionals, be it in Quebec or in other regions. In your opinion, what are the challenges or rather what are the obstacles that have to be overcome to convince professionals to head to the regions?
The topic is a labour shortage, but we could also talk about a shortage of professionals in many regions, if not all the regions of this large and beautiful country. When we examine the situation in Quebec, we see there is no difference. I live very close to the Quebec border. So we listen to francophone media from Quebec. I have an opportunity to see what is going on in the Lower St. Lawrence, in the Gaspé, in Montreal or Quebec City.
What makes it so difficult to convince professionals to work in the regions? It is certainly not just the attraction of a large city, because being stuck in traffic for an hour and a half, morning and night, is certainly not attractive. So there must be something that we have not fully understood and that perhaps you could explain.