There is only one answer, and it is brief. We have to lobby in French if we want to attract people to a given place. Let me give you an example: the Department of Health has already tried to recruit doctors to serve the francophone community, but in vain. That's because the department's personnel are unilingual anglophones. However, there are job fairs in the area of health care which are organized in French. There are health care conventions. I go and meet people, we exchange cards, I talk about Nunavut, about its problems and major challenges, as well as about the fact that going there is an opportunity to learn about another culture, that life is simpler up there and that it is a different type of professional experience. We exchange business cards. I even got the names of a few nurses. One doctor was interested, but there are administrative rules which govern medical professional associations. That is all. It is just a matter of doing what it takes. Again, the important thing is to have lobbying and recruitment programs, as well as programs which promote health care in French, and to integrate them all.
I would like to make a final point. We might do all that and succeed, but if these new people are not integrated into a service organization which works for the French community, it will all have been in vain. Therefore, from this moment on, we must negotiate with the government to indicate that giving a shift to a French-speaking doctor in a hospital will not get us very far. Francophones rarely go to the hospital, because that is not what they need. What they really need is access to a family physician. That can be done, and we have to negotiate the organization of these services. It is not a question of law, but applying the laws governing health care, in my view. So we need to find out how to organize the services for Canadians by respecting and continually adapting the services to the language spoken by the people, including work schedules, the availability of services, recruitment and retention.
So, on the whole, the point is to convince people to work in a place where it is cold. It is -50o up there right now. If you come, bring your mitts, but rest assured that you will experience something new and will have a lot of work to do.