Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are addressed to the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, and deal with the issue of the recruitment and retention plan and the maintaining and enhancing of our northern staff and hopefully finding new staff as well.

This issue has been raised in this House quite a number of times in the business plans and it continues to try to address a significant shortfall. My question to the Minister is: given the fact that studies show that we tend to focus too much time on recruiting and not enough time on retention, what does she intend to do to try to improve the retention component of the recruitment and retention plan to make it easier to access? More of a one-window approach, so that our northern professionals get the help they need? Thank you.