Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would agree with the Member that ECE has a role to play in ensuring that our educational programs are working as they should. I would be happy to discuss the situation with the Minister of Health and Social Services and talk about what we can do to ensure that people are aware that while the government has a policy of offering a job to all grads, they can't be guaranteed that they are going to get a position in the area that they are most interested in or in a location that they want to be in.
I think the Member makes a good point that we should make people know that going into the program and try to find a way to encourage people to look at other opportunities outside of Stanton. We know we have tremendous pressures in our small communities. That was one of the reasons we started this program, was to find northerners who would be comfortable in our smaller communities and want to move back to them.
So I would agree to follow up with the Minister of Health and Social Services and I would be happy to meet with the Standing Committee on Social Programs and review what our findings are. We should be able to give numbers on northern grads and how many are still in the North fairly easily. I know I saw that number tracked about a year ago and at that time, a majority were still working in the North. So I will see what we can do to update that
number and report that back to standing committee. I will leave it at that, Mr. Chairman.