Maybe I can add that we need a lot of services for a lot of our clients, all of us, but it's hard here to get the proper staff, to keep them, and sometimes it's because of housing issues or sometimes it's because of the salary not meeting the expenses. A lot of services are coming from non-profits, so we don't have high salaries, even if we're in the north. I know that my salary is lower than that of someone in Ottawa running a food bank, and the cost of living is less. There's all this reality that I think we should consider, the fact that it's hard to get properly trained staff to do the job and to keep them.
On December 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.