The Canadian Nurses Association certainly works with the Canadian Aboriginal Nurses Association to try to see how we can address that. There are some programs that dedicate some seats for aboriginal students, because we also believe that we need to encourage and train aboriginal nurses who can go and work in first nation communities. So there are some seats reserved and better support, and we've even developed some cultural diversity guidelines to better prepare nurses, even when they are entering nursing programs, so they are able to go and work among aboriginals and first nations, because evidently we want both. We want to train aboriginal students to become nurses, but we also want Canadian nurses who can work as well with aboriginal communities.
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