Thank you for the question. It's very pertinent to dentistry.
In the late 1990s the profession realized that Canadians wanted health care of the same standard to be delivered across this country. So it didn't matter whether you were in Nova Scotia or British Columbia, there were expectations. As a result, it was important that practitioners had the ability to move across the country.
All the licensing bodies in Canada came together with the profession, and now we have total portability—any professional licensed in any province can move between provinces. That's been a very good thing for the profession.
In the area of foreign-trained individuals, we also realized there was a necessity to make sure the profession had access to people from other places. Working with the universities and regulatory authorities, we have a way to bring people into this country to allow them to practise. Recently we tried to make it even easier for foreign-trained people to come, and we're dealing with foreign-trained specialists right now. It's really an educational issue, to make sure people can come from other places to teach in our institutions, and to allow general practitioners to move. So it's an important area for us.