Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I also support this motion. Mr. Speaker, we are very well aware of the challenges in the health care professions area in terms of the shortages and the competition for health care workers. That's why when we do manage to recruit health care workers, or we have long-time health care workers in our system, that we have to do everything that we can to treat them with respect and fairness. When there are so many options out there available to health care workers in other environments, in other jurisdictions, we have to do our utmost to ensure that there are not sometimes what may even seem small in view of the big challenges, small issues, but it's these things, though, that cause people to despair. It causes the morale to go down and it causes people to start looking elsewhere. We cannot afford to have that happen. We can't afford to lose anybody from the system. It is a mobile workforce out there; the opportunities are limitless. I would like to see our government consider the uniqueness of the North and consider unique solutions to ensure that we do recruit and we do keep the health care professionals that we need to operate a very high quality system in the Northwest Territories. So with that, Mr. Speaker, I hope that the government will take note of this request and this motion that is coming forward today, and taking it in the spirit which it is intended. We're trying to make constructive recommendations. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Jane Groenewegen on Motion 16-15(5): Health Care Professionals, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on November 2nd, 2006. See this statement in context.
Motion 16-15(5): Health Care Professionals, Carried
Item 16: Motions
November 1st, 2006
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