Thank you, Madam Chair. In the Department of Human Resources within this – it’s actually not in this section, it’s in the corporate human resources section – there is a recruitment and retention unit that’s responsible for the big picture recruitment. Planning, figuring out how to convince people to come here, also supporting programs that will actually train people here in the Northwest Territories. Programs that they do run out of there, there are a number of health-specific programs. They do the bursaries, they do the professional development initiative, they do some marketing on the big scales, not for individual jobs, the Community Health Nurse Development Program. A whole variety of programs. It’s complicated. It’s a joint responsibility because ultimately the budget for those programs is a Health and Social Services budget even though it’s administered by the Department of Human Resources.
The two departments have to work closely together. I don’t believe there has been a recent sort of evaluation or review of the effectiveness of the bursary program’s professional development initiative, Community Health Nurse Development Program, or a number of the programs that are being delivered in there.
I can tell you that the bursaries are being utilized. They continue to be distributed. The Community Health Nurse Program is still in place. There has been a recent intake. I believe there are four people in that program right now. So there are things that are happening in that area.