Definitely, as I said before, one needs to look at the internal mechanism of our system in place to manage this. When you have a base wing surgeon or a doctor on a base somewhere and they need people, and because of the local community they can hire people, they have to revert to a very bureaucratic-heavy system in Ottawa. It takes so much time. There are so many barriers. There's a myriad of freezes on hiring. They are losing those capabilities that are ready to come on board.
The money is one thing. There are public service doctors who are paid less than a contractor coming in. The Canadian Forces medical system is now hiring a lot through Calian, which is a contracting organization. If you want to attract someone, you'd better pay them as much or more than others, otherwise they'll go elsewhere.
Obviously, a recruiting campaign, more aggressive, more innovative contact.... I know there's some initiative to get in touch with medical associations and so on. This is definitely all there.
All of what we're talking about here is definitely related to the military members and so on, but the impact on family is very important. I've seen initiatives on bases where the base surgeon at the end of the day—because medical doctors are forbidden to provide care to civilians; therefore, they're forbidden by law to provide care to family—takes his uniform off, and at 6:00 p.m. he has an office provided by the base commander and he's looking after families. Instead of doing his time in a hospital downtown, which all doctors need to do to maintain their skills and so on, he's doing it by giving support to the families. There are a lot of initiatives that I've heard of from people on the base that can be helpful.
Also, you're right: it's competing with a resource pool that is in great demand, absolutely.