Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are in the process of finalizing a draft on the Continuing Care Strategy, which I mentioned in this House a number of times. It has a number of components that relate to home and community care, supported living, independent living and facility living. We are also constantly monitoring the placements down south. I recognize, and I think the health and social services system recognizes, that there is a need to better coordinate our efforts when we place our residents in southern facilities, be they children or adults.

We are also taking the steps, through this strategy, to come up with a way that is agreeable to the authorities and to the department so that as a system, we can better coordinate our efforts the same way we are trying to improve our coordination in the areas of recruitment and retention of health professionals.

We are aware that this is an issue and we are aware that we have people down in southern jurisdictions. We also want to ensure that as we contemplate repatriation, while some may be down there because there is no room and some of them are there for some very specialized reasons, we do it carefully on a case-by-case basis. Thank you.