Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Minister for that explanation. Just getting back to the opening comments on the increases in the investment in our physician and specialists workforce in the NWT. I know it's always on the rise with the collective agreement increases and higher costs related to the cost of living and just northern expenses in general. I know that the NWT does have a hard time to retain a lot of specialists and physicians. I'm just wondering what types of monitoring tools the department has in place to ensure that the physicians and these specialists that they hire and try to retain, that we are actually getting value for the money that this government is putting out for all these specialists. When I go through the lists of specialists in our workforce, there seems to be a lot of specialists there in my view, but I'm not too up on all the social and physical issues that northerners are dealing with. But looking at some of the specialists, I can say for sure that a lot of these positions wouldn't be required to be working every day, day in and day out in a lot of instances where we have specialists like orthopaedics and really specialized physicians in the workforce. I'm just curious as to how we measure the value for dollar that this government and the residents get out of a lot of the specialists.
Robert Villeneuve on Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 23rd, 2004. See this statement in context.
Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 22nd, 2004
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