Thank you Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Patry, I will first address some of the comments you just made.
The accountability process you refer to does not date to 2006. It was underway well before that. It was the work of the previous government that made sure these rules were applied. Furthermore, I am pleased to hear you say that the system is working very well.
I would also like to mention this. We want to make sure that health training services are available. I too am from New Brunswick. In fact, three hon. members on this side are. It is quite pleasant. We understand full well the reality of official language minority communities living in small rural communities. In Edmunston, my home town, there is a Université de Moncton campus. It has a section dedicated specifically to nursing training.
As far as I can tell, you did more with less. You offered more training than planned with the money you received, which is very good. The fact remains that in our rural communities it is still very difficult to meet the minimum needs in manpower. In reality, we are talking more about maintaining manpower. The entire baby boomer effect will catch up with us shortly. Many members of my family, for example, work in health care. Not too long from now, the health care situation will become shaky.
It is good to train people, but are we able to train enough? If you tell me we could train more, that means the federal government should keep its promises and commit more funding to postsecondary education. Perhaps then we would manage to make up for the shortfall that is just around the corner.