I'll start.
I guess I have two parts in my response to the points you're making, sir. One deals with information on the necessary qualifications that we need to provide to the individuals who want to come to Canada. With the launch of the Foreign Credentials Referral Office, housed at CIC, that information is being provided, both to newcomers who have already come to Canada as well as through our offices abroad. But that's only part of the answer, as you said.
The other piece of the puzzle is how we are working with the regulatory bodies and the professional associations to make sure that newcomers to Canada have a process to go through that recognizes both their educational and work experience credentials so they can understand where they'll be able to fit into the Canadian employment picture. There has been a framework agreed by all provinces and territories, along with the federal government, called the pan-Canadian framework for the assessment and recognition of foreign qualifications. That framework has all governments in the country committed to four principles: fairness, transparency, timeliness, and consistency. So when an individual who wants to come to Canada is actually going through one of these bodies to have their credentials recognized, they will know within a year whether their credentials will be recognized; and if not, because there's a gap they must fill, whether through course work, work experience, or examinations, they will know.
Finally, the third piece of this is that if they're not going to have their credentials recognized and they have not been able to fill a gap, what other occupations may be available to them?
This framework was agreed in November 30, 2009, and we're going through a process of identifying priority occupations to implement it, largely reflecting where the greatest labour market demand is. So all governments are working towards identifying our first set of occupations for December of this year.