Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let me tell you something. The money is there now. That money is there right now, if we can get a settlement on pay equity. My honourable colleague is speaking about teachers and my colleague over there is talking about health professionals. It is there right now. A community nurse, if we can get a deal on pay equity, gets an $11,000 increase in their salary. Never mind any additional increases that are going to occur from the collective agreement and from some of the changes we want to make to the cost of living component in the communities. It is there now. We just cannot get anybody, or the union to take it out to the membership to let them vote on it and get on with it.
I think we could make a significant change. It may not be perfect, but a significant change to the remuneration we provide to our employees. Not just teachers, not just nurses, but everybody. If one, we can get a collective agreement signed off, which I am optimistic we might do in the coming two or three weeks; and two, get resolve to pay equity. We recognize that. We put $40 million in the budget to deal with it. Thank you.