Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll speak to the ENR and then I’ll turn over the nurse practitioner question to Mr. Beaulieu.
My response to the Member for Sahtu will be very similar to the one I just gave to the Member for Frame Lake regarding the front end. We bring the fire crews on; we bring all the aircraft on. It’s a very time-specific, seasonally oriented situation. It’s definitely, if not demand driven, it’s driven by the weather and very many factors. Dryness, rain, lightning, those type of things. It’s an emergency essential service in many cases. We need to be fully operational April 1st . That’s sort of the intent.
Which is hence the funding request for that particular portion of the ENR budget.
I’ll ask Mr. Beaulieu, Mr. Chairman, with your concurrence, to speak to the nurse practitioner issue.