Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I do not dispute the comments made by the honourable Member in respect to SAOs being placed in a difficult position as a result of a lot of increased responsibilities. He is correct. A lot of municipalities have chosen to take on a lot of problems that have really expanded the responsibilities of the SAO and some of the senior management at the municipal level. I cannot speak directly to it with Municipal and Community Affairs, I know they have a community empowerment development fund that is particularly used for those types of situations, in trying to beef up some of the expertise at a municipal level, management level and a council level as they assume so more of these responsibilities.
On the specific issue on recruitment and hiring retention of health care professionals, social workers and nurses, the honourable Member refers to, we do recognize that it cannot be done on a community-by-community basis. There are no economies of scale there. Even right now, we find in our recruitment and retention plan that even on a regional-by-regional basis, there is not a lot of sense in all the boards competing with each other for those same resources. It makes a lot more sense to do it on a larger scale, a territorial scale in trying to provide uniform standards, first of all, pay rates and benefits so that there is not that competition between communities and between boards, where you have some economies of having one central individual or agency providing the broader recruitment for all communities and regions, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Member for his comments.