Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, we, by necessity, are optimistic that we are going to stay on this issue and look at filling the vacancies, recognizing some of the factors both locally, nationally and internationally that are affecting us. Very clearly, we do have some serious challenges. We have significant challenges for nursing, for example, in small communities. I talked earlier in the House about some of the options we are looking at in terms of trying to set up our own northern float pool where we can invest the resources here so we don't have to pay the very stiff rates that we are charged by agency nurses. We are working with the college to look at the recruitment issues when it comes to social workers, to deal with and try to improve enrolments and get more northern social workers in the field to fill the vacancies we have there, as well.

We are trying to track and setting up processes to work with all of the students that we have in the Northwest Territories that are going out to school that are going to be taking courses in colleges, be it for pharmacy, radiology or lab technicians, so that we can, in fact, connect up with them and encourage them and make them job offers to come back to the Northwest Territories. Thank you.