We have actually had several meetings with the new Foreign Accreditation Agency. They have established it as primarily a referral agency to provincial organizations. A lot of the foreign accreditations happen at a provincial level.
We have been watching with great interest how they have been setting up the system in a very, very quick way. I think they plan to be operational by March of this year. To go from zero to operational is quite an impressive feat. We would of course be interested in playing a more active role in that.
At this point in time, it's very much been a department-driven initiative. However, we do believe their approach is very positive. It has great possibilities for success. Having said that, because this is a federal system where professional immigrants can start their accreditation process from abroad, there still needs to be much work done at a provincial level with those foreign accreditation bodies. They vary across Canada.
I think there still is a need for a great number of resources to assist and support and help those foreign accreditation bodies, as Fariborz was saying, become more welcoming. They need to look at their red tape, their bureaucracy, and their processes as well. In many of the different professions, there's a lot of red tape associated with becoming accredited. Some of that may be outdated.