Ryan Cleary at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On May 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.

May 7th, 2013 / 12:15 p.m.

NDP

Ryan Cleary NDP St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Linda, for your presentation. I found it fascinating.

I have a few quick questions and only five minutes, so the more succinct your responses, the better.

First, you mentioned some statistics in terms of nursing graduates, that in 1990 there were 12,000, in 1999 there were 4,000, and today, in 2013, we have 9,000.

I know that in Newfoundland and Labrador alone at one point we had I think three or four nursing schools. Now we have just one, offered through Memorial University.

One of the obvious solutions would be to increase the number of nursing graduates, to increase the number of nursing schools. Why don't we do that?

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