Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m not a practitioner, so I can only go so far. My understanding is that the act is relatively recent, would not need to be updated. The regulations are also timely. The act does provide for the Minister to approve a framework of practice. My understanding is that when we talk about standards, we do not have an updated framework of practice.

The Member has noted that there was some work done in 2005 but that it may not be current with standards nationally, it needs to be updated. That is the work that we are talking about when we talk about establishing this consultant position that would initially do some of that developmental work and then would have on an ongoing basis a training mentorship and oversight role.

When we talk about risk management, we’re talking in large part about being able to monitor midwives. I understand, from a professional perspective only a midwife can monitor or audit the practice of another midwife. So we need to have somewhere in our system the capacity to do that on an ongoing basis.