Some job ads in there, Mr. Speaker, cause me a great deal of concern. I was looking at one there where they were looking for apprentices in one of the communities. I am one of the biggest supporters of apprentices in the Northwest Territories and I do think we have probably one of the strongest apprenticeship programs in Canada. But there were a couple of things that made me look twice at it; it's the rate of pay that we pay these apprenticeships. I was looking at one where they get $16.67 an hour and one they get $17 an hour, and I know they are first year apprentices, but I can remember back in the early '80s being an apprentice and we were getting almost as much as they're getting now. We have to be able to compete with the private industry to recruit and retain good quality employees. I know the apprentices are working towards the end product, which is becoming a journeyman and, hopefully, getting a journeyman wage, but then I also saw another ad where a journeyman was getting $27 an hour, a journeyman electrician getting $27 an hour in the government system. Mr. Speaker, they go to private industry and they get a lot more than that. There are so many ads I see in there, Mr. Speaker.

Another one that always caused me a great deal of concern was the money that we paid for our nurses. I see one for $34.52 for an acute care nurse and I see other ads where they're paying a lot more money than that. Mr. Speaker, I'm not disputing and I've never disputed the importance of the work that people do, but we ask a lot of people to go out, get the training, especially with the nurses where they work long hours, we ask them to go and get the education and then we don't pay them accordingly and then we sit here and we wonder why they're all moving South and coming back as agency nurses or finding better paying jobs. Mr. Speaker, I think it's time we have to have a close look at this and start paying people what we think they're worth. Thank you very much.