Thank you for the question.
Earlier, I talked about the labour shortage in education and health care. A number of provinces have recruited a lot of nurses from abroad, but they don't seem to be doing the same thing to find teachers. It's crucial that we provide guidance to these individuals, given the whole cultural aspect of what teachers do. If we want to meet the educational needs of the communities, we have no choice but to recruit people from abroad.
We can't expect someone who has just arrived to be able to just walk into a classroom right away. We have to work with the faculties of education and the professional associations on prior learning recognition, which is often a challenge. We should even create an education corridor across Canada to facilitate recruitment of people in this field.
There's a huge shortage of early childhood instructors who teach French or French as a second language. That's where it all begins. If we can do it in health care, why can't we do it in education? We have to wonder why.