In British Columbia, and I think it's fairly similar across the country, it takes about eight months to be certified as a health care assistant. These programs are extremely important and the sooner we start them, the better.
We have a similar program in the province of British Columbia.
We simply don't have enough people living here in Canada to fill those roles. Already the provincial government has hit a plateau in entrance to a totally free, paid-for program, so we need to have immigrants take those roles. That's why we really need to work hard to bring people in to fill those gaps.