Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yes, CEOs and Health and Social Services boards are allowed to offer incentives to attract physicians to come to the North and to take up the contract that was being offered. There were signing bonuses that were allowed.

In communities such as Hay River and Fort Smith, which currently do not have permanent physicians, we are also trying to identify some way of recognizing the fact that if you come into a pool of doctors where you are number 23 in a pool of 26, the pressures on you are not the same as if you are number one coming into what will hopefully be a pool of five, for example. We are looking at a way we can possibly recognize the initial workload a doctor would incur in being the first or second into a community where there should be four or five or six positions. We are analyzing that right now in the department, to see if there is a way of also alleviating physicians' fears that they might be alone or a couple of them might be alone for a period of time when they first come to a community. Thank you.