We are in constant communication with the health authorities across the health and social services. We recognize that we have vacancies across the board in every area. We have 27 percent vacancy in social workers, 16 percent vacancy for nurses. Those are two of the numbers that I know off the top of my head. There are vacant positions recognizing mental health counsellors and wellness counsellors and so on.

We wish there were no vacancies, but we go out and try to fill the vacancies working with the authorities. We do put pressure on the authorities to

be able to fill the positions. There are always other factors. Housing is generally a factor. Sometimes there’s nothing available on the market for individuals when they need to relocate a social worker. We sometimes use locums to address the issues from nearby regional centres, but aside from that, I guess we’re just doing the regular thing and trying to fill positions, put out advertisements, and going through that process.