Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Roland refers to recruitment efforts on behalf of boards and the insistence in some instances of the department becoming involved. We agree with the committee that there needs to be more coordination in the recruitment efforts amongst boards, because otherwise you do have duplication of efforts and we do have dedicated personnel that are involved in recruitment and boards do not have that.

They do not have the same ability to oversee these kinds of things. I think that one of the instances that you referred to in terms of recruitment where the board wanted to get involved had to do with an attempt to recruit people who were coming from overseas, which was particularly complicated in terms of how they were going to get here, how they were going to be looked after when they got here, how they were going to address the credentials and insuring that their registration and in fact the number of people there might have been anticipating or are anticipating recruiting would probably be more than just for that region.

So it was a clear case where there was definitely value added by the department becoming involved in that, because there were a lot of complex considerations in that particular initiative. That is all. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.