Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would hope that the department has a good idea as to whether or not they will be able to go forward as an integrated service.
I also have some concerns as to how we're going to attract people to work in this integrated service. For example, I have addressed alcohol and drugs for a number of occasions in this Assembly with the Minister, in the line of putting some criteria in place for qualifications for alcohol and drug workers. I have never been able to get the Minister to say that he would recognize alcohol and drug workers as a profession. Now we're not going to make them alcohol and drug workers anymore, we're going to reclassify them and make them prevention workers, from what I understand. I would like to know from the Minister what types of qualifications are a person going to have to have to be a prevention worker. If we're going to be dealing with an integrated service under the umbrella of mental health, I would suspect that somebody would have to have far more qualifications to deal with an integrated service than they would have to have strictly as an alcohol and drug counselor. I think that the services are very distinct and there may be some similarities, but I'm sure that there are many areas where they're not connected whatsoever, although we would like to think that everything comes under mental health. So I would like to know from the Minister what types of qualifications is a prevention worker going to need, for example. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.