Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the witnesses for coming this morning.
I've very much interested in training for linguistic minority health professionals. My father graduated from the University of Manitoba and the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface and practised for a long time as a physician in northern Alberta. Some of his patients were anglophone, but he also provided care in French when necessary.
Health care in fact involves a very intimate discussion between a physician or health professional and his or her patient. It is very important to be able to speak the patient's language.
I'd like to know how you actually intervene. How do your two organizations intervene with the universities to provide good training for health professionals? For example, you described the program at Laurentian University, where courses are given in English for reasons of critical mass, which is not being achieved. However, the students can take courses in French. How can you actually intervene with those universities to ensure good professional training is provided?