The reality we're seeing is that young nurses are coming into the profession, and yes, they have had some experience, but they need that support. Because there's such a nursing shortage all across Canada—and if I'm going to speak, I'm going to speak about New Brunswick—where nurses have retired, the nurses are so overworked on the floors that they don't have the time to give that support to these young nurses.
There are different types of preceptorships. When a nursing student is studying, they do a preceptorship. If we had tax incentives for nurses to not be taxed to the roof if they choose to come back from retirement—as we saw, a lot of them came back during COVID to support health care—it would mean that we would be able to support these nurses.
There are also paid preceptorships for nurses. What's happening is that when a doctor is training to be a doctor, they get paid to be interns. Nurses don't get paid to go in and work side by side. That's the reality of it. Why not reimburse them? That's what we're saying. It probably would encourage more students to go into nursing.