Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In follow-up to my Member’s statement today, I would like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services what kind of programs the GNWT Department of Health and Social Services still has in existence for general practitioners who may wish to become specialists, for students studying medicine who may want to return to the Northwest Territories under some kind of a bursary or sponsorship program. We have found these sometimes to be successful, but at the same time we’ve also heard of stories of NWT residents that did want to return to the Northwest Territories and there were obstacles and barriers, and we do not want to see that.
Although Hay River has two permanent physicians now out of the complement of seven for which we’re funded, we still do need more doctors in the Northwest Territories. I’d like the Minister to update us on the programs and his policies of his department to encourage that. Thank you.