Recently—I think just a couple of weeks ago—the federal government announced that it is tripling both recruitment and retention allowances for Indigenous Services Canada nurses who are serving the 50 remote and isolated communities in Canada.
Knowing that we're tripling the recruitment and retention bonuses, I wanted to ask what that says about the state of the labour shortage of public sector nurses that we're facing in health care, specifically as it relates to being able to provide those critical, vital services in northern Canada.