Thank you for that, Mr. Chairman. People who do come here for the Nurse Practitioner Program are expected to maintain their residence where they are from -- it would make sense if they are a mature, middle-age person that's been practicing already, that they are going to probably already have a home established -- then they come here to have this training and they are expected to maintain two residences. Even MLAs aren't expected to do that.
If that were a deterrent to being able to partake in this, it seems like it would be small cost to pay -- considering the few people in this program -- it seems like it would be a small price for someone to pay to see an experienced nurse enhance their professional training to become nurse practitioners. I would like to ask the Minister if his department has given any thought to smoothing the path, so to speak, for some of these training programs that would ultimately result in us having a larger inventory, a larger group of trained northern professionals with skills to go back and service their communities. Thank you.