Mr. Speaker, maximizing northern employment is obviously an important aspect of this government. We want to train Northerners for northern jobs.
I understand, based on conversations with some of my constituents and others, that enrolment levels at Aurora College for the nursing program are dropping to the point where, next year, we’re only predicting seven nurse graduates.
Given that the health system relies on these northern nurse graduates to fill positions both in Stanton and other communities throughout the Northwest Territories, what is being done by Aurora College — my question is to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment — to increase enrolment in the nursing program, to ensure we have an adequate supply of nurses coming out of that program for northern work? Northern jobs — Northerners doing northern work.