Mr. Speaker, the department and the government is doing a lot of work to put our nurses through our various training programs. We

just direct appointed a number of nurses. We support nurses going through this program.

Mr. Speaker, this year’s budget for the CHN Program, we have a contract with Aurora College for $460,000 and we spent $350,000 in salary subsidy for CHNs in their second year program. It is important that we support them through their programming, and we will be interested in taking on new students, but we need to make sure that we have the budget in place to support them.

Mr. Speaker, I just want to let the Member know that we support this program. I support this program, but it would be irresponsible for us to not pay attention to the budget. Mr. Speaker, I think we agree on the point that we support this program. Thank you.