Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Patry, thank you for meeting with us this morning.
Obviously, we have received a number of people to discuss health. There seems to be a general consensus that there is great need and that the initiatives that have been taken have been quite successful for the most part. It is becoming increasingly difficult to challenge what seems to be a success. However, certain aspects got our attention. As far as the work of the consortium is concerned, the issue of evaluation in particular has our attention.
You spoke of the formative evaluation, which gave you indications about the locations of the placements to encourage students to return to their home regions, which is quite nice. However, in my opinion, formative evaluation also has a role to test the education at issue to see whether it corresponds well to need and to make possible corrections to it.
I would like to know whether, during the course of the formative evaluation, you had to make changes to the education based on the needs of the various communities.
Furthermore, the evaluation itself seems to be posing problems in terms of the people involved in the evaluation. In other words, it is not an independent evaluation. For example, we saw in another file that the parameters were changed when evaluating people who spoke French. That made a difference. Is this true in your case? Does the fact that people involved in the case are in charge of the evaluation, namely Mr. LeBlanc and Mr. Bisson, have an impact on the results of the evaluation? I would like to know whether you intend to use the services of the same firm for the final evaluation.