Thank you very much.
It's a difficult problem. The constitutional squabbling between the federal and provincial governments has been going on for generations. It seems to me we need to ensure that we have a plan and data to determine how many health professionals we will need and where we will need them. We need to have some level of encouragement to prevent the situation where Newfoundland educates a school of respiratory therapists and they all move to Alberta because that's where the money is. We need to do something to equalize the level of health human resources in this province, so it's not just a matter of wherever the money is best and that's where they're going to go.
I acknowledge that this is an incredibly difficult problem in a free country where people are free to move from point A to point B, but we have to figure out how to create incentives to ensure that all regions of this province have enough, and also that we create enough health professionals for our own uses. It is unconscionable that we would be going to other countries to take their highly qualified professionals when they desperately need them themselves.