As a charity, which we are, in the non-profit world, employees don't come to work in a charity or work in the non-profit world for the money. That's pretty obvious. They do it because they care, they're passionate and they want to help people. At the same time, there's the expectation that there will not be a significant financial barrier to that.
As I mentioned, we received some support provincially to leverage our wages so that we were at least within the realm of what they were paying provincially, but that's a challenge. The labour shortage also makes it a challenge. Here in P.E.I. we have 100 staff providing services across the island. We are constantly recruiting individuals for positions. We're no different from anybody else in the province, but it's a challenge. It's a challenge for our sector particularly, so it's important.
There's not an easy answer. As I said, people don't expect to be paid what is paid provincially or federally, but they certainly don't expect the gap to be huge.