Mahsi for that. It's still muddied, that whole process, because now we're dealing with an independent body, and a lot of times, when you deal with independent bodies, you're always having problems, because we're not totally regulated by something under the GNWT umbrella. We get answers there, right now. Here, we don't. I believe you guys look after recruitment and retention, and you're sending them over there. You're cutting the ties, type of thing.
We do have a lot of legitimate complaints out there, and we haven't resolved them. Like I said, some were back from May a year ago. We're still here with no answers. There is a big disconnect and a problem there. I would really like the department to look at tightening or strengthening the relationship that you have with this group, in order that we get some timely responses to formal complaints. Right now, we're just not getting anywhere. My community, a year later, we're still up in arms.
I think we may be requesting to meet with the Minister of health in our community in the near future to really discuss this issue with RNANT/NU and a complaint process. We need to do better than that and not just say, "Well, they're a regulatory body. They're on their own." We're hiring the nursing profession in there. Those are just comments on that one.
Recruitment and retention that my colleague brought up there is another one, too, because I know we've had a person or two go through the nursing profession from our small communities now and again. Now, it's just gone by the total wayside. I'm wondering if the GNWT, the department of health, would consider an aggressive recruitment program in high schools and going out to all the small communities to speak to them because I think there could be some very good people in there who would be interested if somebody were there to talk to them about it, maybe an actual nurse, too, to pique their interest, and that may be where our youth might take that up. It's a profession. We've got to get into their faces. I would really like to see that happening. That's just another general comment. Mahsi, Madam Chair.