Mr. Chairman, the Member is asking about accountability with respect to hiring practices. A good portion of the money that is received and distributed by our department does go to health boards for hiring nurses, social workers, health care workers. Our statistics, in terms of affirmative action hiring, are not where they could be and probably where they should be, but, as a department, we are endeavouring to address that. The bulk of the money that our department does spend on human resources is for fairly technical and fairly highly qualified people. As you are aware, there is an initiative within the department to train a northern workforce through our collaboration with Arctic College, providing programs for Northerners to access.

We have had quite a considerable amount of success in this. We will continue to work towards that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.