Physicians are certainly one side
of it. I believe that in the last couple of years 13 or 14 bursaries have been awarded to medical students. I think two or three of those individuals have successfully completed their studies. I also believe none of them have returned; I’m not sure whether or not the dollars have been collected. I’d be curious to know whether or not the department is actually trying to track down those dollars.
More specifically, we have a large number of nursing students. To the credit of northern students, the vast majority of the northern students have returned and have actually begun to return the service. But a large number still haven’t returned, and in the last couple years we’ve had larger numbers of these northern students actually graduate from Aurora College and head south.
Specifically what is being done to track this, and what is the status of those individuals who have left the North without returning their service, either by time or money, and will the department be collecting these dollars from those individuals?