Thank you, Monsieur Choquette.
Yes, in fact, New Brunswick has been working with a variety of stakeholders, including our government, for the last year and a half now. We have advised the CCRNR, the Canadian Council of Registered Nurse Regulators, that because of our situation, we may have to explore, and now are exploring, alternatives to the NCLEX.
I want to assure Madame Boucher that the exam is currently offered in both French and English. They can write it, but there are limited resources.
It is not so much the translation that concerns us, or the resources; it is the U.S. experience for the last 20 years. We have researched, and there is a large number of research articles and documents that inform us that in the U.S., where Spanish is prevalent, the Spanish students have the same experience that our French students are having.
This is very concerning, as are reports coming from northern areas of our province, where our indigenous people are also having the same experience in terms of failure rates.