Yes, for sure. The hospital budget restriction is an issue across the country, and in your province, too, which I just came from.
The issue of part-time/full-time depends on where you live. Alberta, for example, has a full-time rate of 38% in nursing, which is purely ridiculous, compared to the Maritimes and your province, which is close to 70%--between 65% and 70%.
In dire times the first thing to go is the education budget. They cut that, and we know that what retains nurses and other health care professionals is a possibility of continuing your education. The next thing that goes is they start splitting up jobs and creating more part-time jobs, which increases the casualization and increases the overtime. That's the problem we're trying to solve in the majority of our health care facilities across the country.