I would just like to make one clarification.
Ms. Brown, you talked earlier about skills among people with certification. People in our community are educated and skilled at their job. However, the salaries we are able to offer in our community are not the same as what is available outside. In spite of that, people want to work for their community and remain on staff. That is not necessarily what you seemed to have understood when you were saying that, in terms of certification, people are not recognized for their skills outside their communities and want to leave them. We do not want to leave. We want to stay in our communities, but we also want to be paid the same wages as people in neighbouring communities in Quebec.
For example, a social worker in our community is paid $50,000, whereas that same person would earn $69,000 under the provincial system. We do the same job, we have the same skills and the same certification. Furthermore, we have experience in the community. Because of the budgets allocated to the communities and distributed among all the different services, the communities are not able to offer more than that if they want to be in a position to provide a range of services to their people and ensure that those services are of high quality. That is what I want to clarify. It's not a question of certification. That may be the case in some communities, but our goal is not to go and work somewhere else. We want to earn the same salary as people elsewhere and continue to work in our community.