Obviously, I would recommend that health care training be maintained. As I said, we've provided support for roughly 100 programs over the last few years. It makes a big difference when services are actively offered in the health care field.
Since you know the communities very well, you understand that we can't wait for the active demand. That's why we're working on this file. In fact, we're one of the leaders on the question of active offer, having worked on it since 2008.
The way we work together is interesting. Active offer is one of the great projects that we've been able to put together nationwide. We would not have had the success we are having with active offer, if we had only pursued it in a few institutions here and there, and had each worked in our own provinces. We did this work collectively. We drew on the strengths and areas of expertise of our colleges and universities. Academics did a lot of work in this regard.
We have put a skills profile in place. We will also have a certificate for the 100 programs or so throughout Canada. They are health care programs aimed at offering services actively.
It really is thanks to federal funding that we were able to carry out such a collective project. Thanks to such funding, we can truly move on to another phase.