Thank you. I will be sharing my time with Mr. Komarnicki.
Minister Finley, I would like to come back to the question I did not have enough time to finish earlier.
In Quebec, there is a serious shortage of doctors. And the population is aging. Perhaps our universities are not able to turn out a sufficient number of doctors at the pace we require. At present, there are many doctors knocking on the doors of Canadian embassies abroad. These people have skills and diplomas. They come from places like Cuba, Venezuela, France, etc.
We have made our language choices. When an immigrant arrives here, he or she is seeking one thing, a new status, a better life, more money, etc. In some cases, they have travelled more than 5,000 km to come to Canada and are willing to travel 500 more to Toronto if the prospects are more lucrative. In the last budget, you earmarked approximately $200 million for Quebec alone. Through the newspapers, we have learned that the money was not necessarily spent on immigrants.
Do you have a monitoring system that ensures that funds are truly spent on immigrants? Or is the money being used on roads and bridges? I know that this audit does not necessarily fall within your purview, but does the department have a way of making sure that money transferred to the current Quebec Liberal government or other provincial governments is truly spent on immigrants? You're dealing with immigrants like me, and I do not want to see the money being diverted from where it should be spent.