You have before you a university president. I am not going to tell you that federal transfers would not be welcome. I think that in the provinces, the need is critical in terms of postsecondary training. Obviously these transfers would quite welcome.
To come back to your question on health training, I would say that this bill allows you to kill two birds with one stone. We are talking here about training health professionals. We know that in almost all health disciplines need is critical. At the CNFS, we have made a special effort to target front-line services. When a person is sick, they are sick in their language. I am quite fluent in English and French; I am bilingual. Nevertheless, a number of years ago, when I ended up in an emergency room where services were available in English, I was unable to express myself in that language even though I am quite fluent in it.
As I was saying, this allows you to kill two birds with one stone: first, we will be able to train more professionals for Canada and also we will be able to train them to serve Francophone minority communities. Everyone wins in this situation. There is no need to question the validity of this project. I think that the accommodation capacity of our institutions will be sufficient if we encourage them to work together.
We do not want to set up a program in medicine at the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. Similarly, we do not necessarily want to create a physiotherapy program at the Collège Saint-Jean. What we want is to work in partnership with these institutions. It may be that some of them are equipped and able to provide distance education. I have not talked about that aspect, but, in fact, distance education is one of the main objectives of the consortium.
It is a matter of distributing courses across Canada through videoconferencing. In the framework of the Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne, or AUFC, in other words all Francophone universities outside Quebec, the University of Ottawa is the bridge to serving 90 sites across the country through videoconferences. This project has been funded by the federal government, by Heritage Canada, over the years. It is another project of which you can be very proud. It allows us to come into contact with all the regions, including Nunavut and the territories.
I think that by investing in this project, we will allow the training capacity of the regions to continue to expand and for partnerships to be established with these communities. In my opinion, everyone wins.