Health Canada, in partnership with the federal-provincial-territorial committee, has been working on the shortages issue, the numbers recruited into the profession. We have also invested in a number of projects directed at getting people to remain in the profession once they're in. This has been especially relevant in nursing. There is a relatively high attrition rate. I don't have the number at my fingertips, but the attrition rate in nursing is quite significant.
We did work on something called the healthy workplace initiative. It wasn't limited to nursing, but it provided $5 million over several years for 11 provincial projects. For national projects, it considered how to strengthen workplaces to increase retention. In the last few months, our minister announced a new initiative with the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions. It provides more than $4 million over a period of three years. It will look specifically at nursing and develop innovative projects in nine centres across the country to try to increase the retention rate.