Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I take issue with the fact that if it's good for 98 percent of the nurses in hospitals across the country, why the government would wade into this with a re-evaluation plan such as the Hay Plan which, to me, like I said, pits nurse against nurse in the same work environment. I don't understand why they would go down that road. It doesn't make much sense to me why we would do that in the first place, but here we are today and the Minister spoke of the nurses that saw an increase and the nurses that remained the same and some who even went down, but they're pay protected while they're in that same position. But the nurses are upset at Stanton; there are a number of them that are concerned about this. If you don't pay attention to it and we don't do anything about it, they're going to go. Some of them have already left. I know the surgery ward, I don't even know if it's open today because of staffing. To me that's an issue. What you've done is created an unequal playing field at that hospital and you've got nurses wanting to go into these specialty areas and there's a real big argument on what you can term as a specialty area, that's another story in and of itself.
Anyway, the nurses are wanting to go into where they're going to get more money and it's leaving the other wards left to fend for themselves. I'm wondering if the Minister can answer that question. What are we going to do when the surgery ward closes because it doesn't have enough staff? Thank you, Madam Chair.