I applaud the department for reducing the agency fees and the efforts they have put in to try to reduce these expenses in the last few years.
To the comment about Aurora College nurses, I have heard via the grapevine and anecdotal information, I guess, that although the nurses are graduating from Aurora College, they are not necessarily being employed. So there is a bit of a negative to the fact that these kids are graduating.
You mentioned casual nurses, and I need to know if those are casuals employed by GNWT, or if locum nurses or agency nurses — whatever you want to call them — are considered casual or not. I’d like to know how many nurses we are currently flying in, flying out and paying all of their expenses. I’ll leave it at that.