Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, well given that we've had a shortage of health care workers enough -- and this has been going on for long enough that it was one of the things that we did include in one of our priorities, can the Minister explain why the union wasn't approached sooner to negotiate the labour market supplement?

It's my understanding it was pretty much a give or -- you know, take it or leave it type scenario with not any room for negotiation. So why was the government not more proactive here versus reactive? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.