I do understand that the federal government has been hesitant to speak because universities are a provincial matter, but when we talk northern, francophone and indigenous, I do not see that as a provincial matter, particularly when we talk about indigenous nations that [Technical difficulty—Editor] provincial boundaries. When we talk about training midwives for the north, we're not talking about just Timmins. We mean Nunavut and northern Quebec. The same skills you need to provide health care in a low-resource setting apply to all of those settings. Francophone is national...one of the two official languages.
Particularly for the northern, indigenous and francophone, I think it's imperative that the federal government step in, as these are groups that are disenfranchised. They need that additional support and advocacy. That is needed for midwifery right now. I don't think it's confined to a provincial matter when we really think specifically about what the mandate of our school was.