Thank you, Madam Chair. Picking up on where Mr. Braden left off, I have a few questions in regard to human resources. First of all, the questions are specifically regarding nurses. I know I have a written question in to the Minister and his staff on what the rate of locum nurses in the Northwest Territories is, where we are getting them from and how much money we are spending on them. As the Minister knows, I am a big fan of training our own people to work in health care and health care professions. I think the Northern Nursing Program, and now it is changed to the four-year program, but I think something like that has really been a success story here in the Northwest Territories. I would encourage any more funding or help that can be put in that area to try to train our own people to work in our hospitals and our health centres to be undertaken.

What I don't completely understand, and that is why I want some historic information on this, is why are we bringing more locum nurses into the Northwest Territories today? This is seven or eight years after the start of the Northern Nursing Program. Are we paying more today on locum nurses than we did pre-development of the Northern Nursing Program? I think that is a question that I would like to have answered. I would be interested in seeing the historical data on the locum nurses and how much money the government is spending on them. That is just something I look forward to seeing. I am glad Mr. Braden was talking about that.

The other thing I wanted to touch on is human resources related. A number of employees were taken out of Stanton hospital and relocated to the corporate human resource services. I don't know the exact number of employees that that was, but I have heard the deputy minister, and the Minister spoke of it. There is $6 million inside the budget of the Health and Social Services to deal with HR functions and the fact that they are looking at actual expansion of that. I am not saying that is a bad thing. What I am trying to get at is I am not a big fan of duplication, as many Members will know. If we have taken employees out and put them at corporate human resource services, what are they being tasked with? Are they still looking after Health and Social Services employees, or are they doing different jobs now and they are being replaced inside the Health and Social Services? I am just trying to understand how that all works. Are we just moving people out and bringing new people in to deal with HR concerns with Health and Social Services? Thank you, Madam Chair.