Thank you, Madam Chair. The other issue I'll talk about is the amount of energy we have given to retention and recruitment of the nurses into our communities. Nurses used to stay in our communities for a long, long time; almost to the point where they became one of our community members. Today it seems like it's a revolving door; three months or six months and they're in and out. There is lots of money and lots of resources that go into retaining the nurses and recruiting them and keeping them in the community. Sometimes it's really hard on our old people, because they see a nurse for a short while then all of a sudden there's a new nurse and they have to explain their whole health history to the nurse, and it just goes on and on.

One of the things I know that we're looking at in our region is we have some people who worked in the community health field for a while, CHRs. We think the CHRs could give good mentorship programs in our communities. Some of the nurses that come into our communities need to get acquainted with the customs and the beliefs of the people and how the community works. So CHRs might be a good link between the people and the new nurses. The new nurse is under a lot of strain and maybe a lot of demand, and maybe doesn't quite understand the dynamics of the communities. It might take something differently, and they might interpret something totally out of context. The CHRs may be a good contact in terms of being mentors for new nurses coming into communities and working with the people. Right now we see that our nurses are kind of answering to the government, but really the nurses are there for the people, and CHRs might be a good contact between the nurses and the community. Making use of the CHRs in our communities might be something that could help us save some money in terms of dollars being poured into retention and recruitment of nurses. I think it's about the relationship in our community and our people. I wonder if the Minister would provide a brief comment to that idea, Madam Chair.