The very point that some provinces are increasing leads us to know there are strategies that could be used. Given that the federal government's goals are to reduce waiting lists and to provide quality care, I would think they could implement pan-Canadian strategies. That would mean there would be good strategies across the country for education, recruitment, and retention of the nursing workforce. That would alleviate some of the issues of trying to compete from province to province for that very small and shrinking nursing workforce.
On October 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.