Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Could the Minister indicate the priority status of the other two individuals? Given the fact that the Minister has the latitude and that we are voting this money for recruitment and retention, why will the Minister not commit to looking at this in a timely way if there are local, northern nurses in place? As your recruitment and retention strategy states, one of your priorities is a stable workforce, a northern workforce. Why would you not look at putting some more money into that area? That is what we are voting for. That is what you are using it for and then you are saying, well, we only put $20,000 there and we cannot touch it any more, we cannot add any more, and it makes no sense to me when I look at this strategy with your goals.

You can quote it, what you want to do, the priority areas, the stable, northern workforce, supporting our own homegrown nurses and such. Yet you are telling me that you do not have the latitude. You cannot move the money around and you have lapsed money. That is what we are voting on this money for. That is why you are here asking for another $3.4 million. I am asking you why are you turning people away, northern nurses, aboriginal nurses, when they are so rare? I know we have already lost one out of our community because there were no arrangements made. She picked up the phone and got a job down south in a heartbeat. I cannot, at this point, see why we want to give you $3.4 million when the department is letting issues like this go unaddressed. Thank you.