This year's budget includes $373,000 for three positions. One of them is a midwifery clinical specialist in Yellowknife. That's one FT. We have a midwife position, a three-quarter FT, for Yellowknife as well, and a three-quarter for Hay River. When you combine the total investments, our funding will be $1.789 million for midwifery. We're going to move, this year, to have a program that has, with the successful passing of this budget, 8.5 full-time equivalent midwives in the Northwest Territories, which will turn this program into one of the most robust midwife programs in the country, when you consider that Saskatchewan has, for their whole province, 15, and all of the Maritime provinces combined have 13.
With the addition of these resources this year, we are going to have the potential for a very strong program for women, and not just for maternity care, but also, using the model that we are rolling out, it is going to be an approach that will build capacity in other positions in communities to support perinatal care and education. This is really the movement to a hub-and-spoke model. This will be part of a multi-year plan where we will have made significant progress on implementing the Midwives Stakeholder Report by the end of this term, with a little bit more to do in 2021.