Thank you, Madam Chair. On the operating room, one of the items that Stanton has been working very hard on in the last couple of years is cross-training of their nursing staff. Why they're working on that and how to fix the operating room is more of the staff that we can cross train will make it easier to do things like open the third OR on a full-time basis; if we can have more staff with that kind of special skill and training.

In terms of the operating room and the third OR opening, we've been doing some work as part of our response to the national wait times initiative that's out there and working with Capital Health to get a good handle on how long our surgical wait times are, both here and in Alberta, to make sure that they can be managed better. With the OR review that was done, Stanton projected that with the same staff that they have today they can move from doing 2,100 surgical procedures to about 3,000 a year with no additional staff, but just by scheduling better, as the Minister mentioned, but also in terms of better organization of the flow-through of people, the scheduling of people, making sure that, in effect, almost overbooking so that if they ended up having to stay an extra hour or two to finish a procedure, at least they wouldn't have the down time with nobody available to do a procedure with.

In terms of the emergency room, the one thing I'd mention that the Minister didn't say was part of the budget here in the emergency room is including nurse practitioners. One of the things they've done to try and get a better handle on the emergency wait times, they did a fair amount of work of implementing a triage system whereby when patients come in they speak to the nurse and they're categorized, if you will, in terms of urgency of need. By bringing in nurse practitioners, some of those lower-end cases that don't need to see the doctor but don't have a clinic to go to at night or that type of thing will be able to see the nurse practitioner at that point in time.