Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I have a question regarding recruitment and retention, specifically on the retention side of the strategy. $3.4 million last year, $3.4 million in this year's budget. Lapsed money last year, yet I have a constituent who is a nurse, a northern nurse, born and raised in the North, who has to meet the requirement to get her bachelor of science, as practicing RNs are going to have to do, yet the department tells her there is no money on the retention side of the strategy.

I do not understand the link to education, the education leave component and the funding. If the two are linked, if there is a big, holistic picture taken here, this has been identified as a critical initiative. Yet the department on one hand says there is no money. They lapse money. They create another program with $70,000. They create all these self-imposed bureaucratic barriers between the funding that was voted as a block. I would like to get some clarification from the Minister. Why is that the case? What can be done to address this issue? Thank you.