Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I share the concern of Mr. Braden and in many cases it is a basic economic issue of supply and demand. We are in a situation of having to compete with all other jurisdictions in Canada, North America and probably the world for that matter because there is, specifically with doctors, a significant shortage. There has been a tremendous ramping up of training for doctors and nurses and they are trying to, I believe, do that with all allied health professions. So, we recognize that we have to remain competitive and that is a hard fiscal reality, but we also recognize that we have to look at retention issues, we have to look at some of the program areas that we have identified that we want to improve services. We have made an effort on the primary health care integrated service delivery to try to link services. We want to deal with birthing services. We want to deal with trying to evolve and develop nurse practitioners. We want to better recognize and be able to work and integrate the alcohol and drug workers who are going to become prevention workers. We are going to put some mental health workers in, some clinical supervisors to work as well with the social workers that we have added at the community level.

We have recognized that we have to do a better job and we need to do some training with community health representatives and get some more training for those folks. We want to make investments in the development of licensed practical nurses, helping them move from to become a more relevant and integral part of that whole integrated service delivery model.

So, we are trying to balance all these competing priorities, but there are significant economic pressures on us to make sure we are very competitive as it comes to health professionals. Thank you.