Yes, I started explaining something to Mr. Bélanger concerning human resources in health, whether it be in English or in French. It is very clear, for example, that by 2025, there will be a very significant shortage of nurses.
The francophone community will have a greater shortage as we have only recently started training our people in French. Since 2003, we've established 50 new health programs to train professionals. That means there wasn't much health training in French before 2003.
In addition, since we have an aging population, we'll have an increasing need to serve our communities, which will have increasing needs, and our health professionals are aging as well. That is one of the reasons why we know we'll be experiencing an even greater shortage in the coming years than the one we're currently experiencing as a result of the aging of our health professionals.
It is very difficult to do any long-term human resources planning because, as my colleagues said, no attempt is being made to address the linguistic variable, that is to say whether the professionals in the provinces are anglophones or francophones or whether they can serve the francophone population if they are bilingual. We don't have those kinds of figures. We only know that, when we look at the situation and also evaluate regions, we see that we still have major needs and that our communities are not always served in French, far from it, when they in fact need to be.