Mr. Chair, currently we live in a country called Canada, in which there are 10 provinces. We have found that when people come to Canada they may come to province A, but then they may wish to move to province B, C or D, depending upon whether there is a job or a family in that province. It therefore is imperative that the federal government play a huge leadership role in coordinating where people can go across this great country.
In order to do that and in order to help get foreign credentials recognized, we have had to deal with every provincial government and every provincial credential recognizing body which have all told us the same thing. All of the credential recognizing bodies, whether they are in the medical professional or engineers, have said that they would like to see a model in which people can be licensed to practise in Canada and--