Mr. Chairman, a few years ago, in Quebec, the provincial government decided to offer pensions to doctors who agreed to retire.
This evening, the hon. member is talking about the need to recruit 3,000 doctors, and I am trying to reconcile all this. Some years ago—but this is still relatively recent—that same government decided that there were too many doctors and offered them early retirement. Surprisingly, many more doctors than anticipated took the government up on its offer.
How can we reconcile the fact that, today, they are saying that if they had more money, they would recruit more doctors with the fact that they offered early retirement to doctors a few years ago?