Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank committee's indulgence here. I am not on the Social Programs committee and I don't get to talk about SFA too often, so I will take my opportunity now. I know the government is on its last legs. There are a couple of weeks left. I just want to get some ideas out there. While we are talking about SFA and ideas, one of the problems that we've seen over and over again is the improvement in retention of health care professionals, especially in the small communities and trying to get nurses in the small communities, trying to get teachers in the small communities. One of the ideas that merits some consideration by the department is taking a look at bringing people in here and paying off their student loans while they are here. It would be a heck of a lot cheaper to do that than to fly nurses in from Honduras or Newfoundland, all these locum nurses. You know what? When we get some of these nurses and teachers on the ground in the Northwest Territories, some of them might
actually want to stay here and make their home here. They are young people; they will raise their families here. So I think that's something that merits some consideration by the department. You can include the Department of Health in that if you are going to examine how that would work. I think it would be much more cost-effective to take a look at paying off...Like I said, tuition fees are going up. Kids are coming out of university now with $45,000 or $50,000 in debt with Canada student loans or provincial student loans, in some cases. If the government of the Northwest Territories said why don't you come work for us and we will pay off your student loan while you are here, give us five years or six years, it would be much more cost-effective, I think, and merit some consideration. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.