Thank you, Mr. Gourde.
To be able to improve access to health services, the minority francophone communities must first have professionals who can deal with their francophone patients in French. We therefore have to be able to train health professionals in various fields. People in Canada are currently being trained through federal government funding and assistance. The funding we receive from the federal government is a lever. It enables us to increase the number of health professionals across Canada. In particular, we're talking about physicians, nurses, speech therapists and social workers who work with people suffering from mental health problems.
Since 2003, that funding has enabled us to register 6,000 new students in programs, and 3,000 of those students, who have now graduated, are working in our francophone communities. I believe these are real results. Without those results, we can't say we're working to improve access to health services in French.