I thank the Minister for that. I think it’s important that its analysis is about implementation as opposed to whether the program has value. We already know that.
My question is still on this topic, and it’s specific. We know that there’s value in putting these positions in regional centres. We also know that there is significant fiscal restraint. This is something that the Minister has talked about over and over again. I’m not sure that I fully understand why, when we have competent professionals in our public service, people with lots of education and lots of skills, why we’re going to go out and ask somebody to do an RFP on this as opposed to getting some of our internal staff who are more than qualified and already have experience through involvement on things like the old Midwifery Implementation Committee. Why are we once again going out and getting contractors to do something that our staff are competent, qualified, and probably interested in doing?