That's exactly what I'm saying. In fact, I was on a panel sitting next to the human resources director for Vancouver Coastal Health, and she was so proud of herself that she was able to go to England to recruit nurses from England. A few years ago it was 100, and last year they were able to recruit 150. But if you look at the demographics of the lower mainland, the region she is supporting, in fact a lot of the seniors living here are either Punjabi-speaking or Chinese-speaking. They do not speak English.
At the same time, we have nurses and medical professionals who are trained in China and trained in the Philippines, and we're not utilizing their qualifications. We need to have a national standard, a framework to recognize credentials.
If we're serious about that, there is no reason we cannot have the college of nurses go to the Philippines and find out what training is provided through the nursing college in the Philippines, find out what kind of gap exists, and provide training for those people so that we can close the gap.
In the lower mainland, just in South Fraser alone, there are 2,100 nurses--