Thank you. Your suggestion is duly noted. From what I can see, everyone seems to agree.
It is important to know how to speak French, but before talking about training, Mr. Gauthier, you made a brief comment in response to Mr. Brown's question. You talked about the woman who had a hard time obtaining certain services. That is a challenge, but there is another one connected with that. People who live in rural areas like mine have to go to the pharmacy to pick up their medications. They receive a fact sheet with instructions, but we know that there are people who are unable to read and understand that information. We know what has just been done, but I do not think that that will resolve the situation. I am not asking you for a comment, but you should perhaps look into this. If we give people only half the service and they are not able to take care of themselves, we have a serious problem.
On the question of training for professionals, it needs to be offered in French if these people are to be able to provide service in French. It is already difficult to attract and retain professionals and francophone communities. It is not enough to say that we will train people in French or train francophones to be medical professionals. That is one thing, even if they take their training in English. But they are still francophones. Attracting and keeping professionals in rural francophone regions is always a challenge.
One of my sisters lives in Saint-Boniface, in the riding of my colleague, Mr. Simard. We always need to find new ways. The other day, we had witnesses at the committee, and I asked them to give us ways to attract and retain these people. You may have some ideas on this, since you have connections in the francophone community. Perhaps you have some ideas that could help regions with official language minority communities.