Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There’s one midwifery position vacant in Fort Smith that they’re currently actively recruiting for. The two positions in Hay River have been filled and we’re looking at going live early 2015. We have already begun some preliminary discussions with the Beaufort-Delta, but those positions and that program will not be moving forward until 2015-2016

as per our plan, but we are in early negotiations with those. Just recently we had the Deh Cho approach us, indicating that they’d be interested. So we’re in conversation with them as well.

One of the challenges we have right now is our coordinator position within the department has left the department. So we’re actively out recruiting for that position. We anticipate that that position will be filled in short order, which will allow us to continue to make the progress that we’re making today. Thank you.