I commend you guys on the
placement of the grads. I think that’s fantastic; I think it’s going a long way to helping us with our nursing problem.
My question was more around…. I understand that the enrolments are dropping, but to me that’s very worrisome. We need to keep those numbers up, and we need be graduating as many northern nurses as we can. So my question to you is: what are the department and the government going to do to continue to get people to enrol in this program and succeed? If the nursing students are facing challenges with child care and finances, what are we going to do to help maximize northern employment and keep our enrolment levels up in a program we know is good and successful? Your grad placement is good. You’ve placed almost
every grad that’s come out of that program into this system. All great; all fantastic. I’m a little worried about what’s going to happen now with these enrolment levels dropping.
Then it comes back to the budget reduction. I get it now. It makes sense: if enrolment numbers are low, let’s spend the money somewhere else. But if we can get enrolment back up to where it needs to be, you might find you don’t have the money to actually do grad placement. So two questions: if you do your job well and you get these enrolments up and more graduates, are you going to have the money you need after you do this cut?