Yes, but at least he found a spot somewhere.
Last night I went to the CNFS Web site just for fun because I knew you would ask me difficult questions. I asked myself the following question: if I were a student somewhere in Canada, how could find a place in an educational institution?
The CNFS Web site lists all the health professions and allows students to access the programs directly. It has special page for CNFS students. When someone decides to apply to the medicine program at the University of Ottawa, for example, or nursing at the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, they go through a special CNFS process. Their application is flagged and receives preferential review within the framework of the CNFS. Our institutions reserve spots for CNFS students.
I will now answer your second question. We try to allow our students of medicine to do four weeks of rotations at a hospital in their home region. The result is not always guaranteed, but that is what we always try to do. We pay for their travel and accommodation expenses when they do not stay with their family or another person. The CNFS covers these additional costs in order to encourage them to go to the Moncton hospital, for example, or to another hospital.