Mr. Chairman, I am wondering whether the members of the committee would allow me to tell a short story. It will be very short, and I think that it is important.
Last spring, I was on a flight with a young man who was studying for his medical exams. I spoke to him in English and asked whether he intended to go back to Manitoba. He was a student in Ottawa or Montreal. I told him that there were people in the French-speaking community who were looking to recruit Manitoban students, and that they would stick by them. I referred to Dr. Fortier and explained how he monitors them very closely. He answered me in French and said that Dr. Fortier did indeed monitor them very closely and that he himself was a young student from Notre Dame de Lourdes.
When I asked him, however, if he intended to go back to Notre Dame de Lourdes, a small francophone village, he said that he did, but only if they build a new health care centre. Young people obviously want to work with new equipment and technology and so on. So you need the infrastructure to support this; otherwise, you lose them. When I talk about recruitment, I don't mean getting people to come back to small villages where nothing is available. You do need to have proper facilities.