Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services and it is regarding the policies of this government when it comes to hiring, especially in the area of hiring undergraduate nurses.

Realizing that these nurses have almost completed their course to be permanent nurses, registered nurses, yet our undergraduate nurses, some of whom have completed up to three years, cannot even get summer employment with a lot of our health boards in the Northwest Territories so that they can continue in that field and conclude their courses.

Mr. Speaker, I think this government has to adopt a policy that clearly allows for the ability to allow for undergraduate nurses to be employed in our health care system. It is happening in other jurisdictions across Canada where they allow for undergraduate nurses, and have guidelines and policies that they use regarding the responsibilities of those undergraduate nurses in the health care centres and hospitals across Canada.