Finance committee  You're right in saying that the federal government has to steer the ship, but it ultimately becomes province-wide. Each province will have its unique needs. If we look at the introduction for violence, Bill C-3 is governed by the federal government, and that's helped us here in

Finance committee  With nurses, what happens is that each province governs its regulations. Here in New Brunswick, there's an act called the Nurses Act. I think they've just opened it and it needs to be updated, because I think it hasn't been updated since the 1970s, so they're looking at different

Finance committee  That's why we think it's vital for the bilateral health agreements with provinces and territories to be anchored in a holistic national nursing retention strategy. We don't have a choice. When we talk about poaching, the reality is that when nurses are tired, when nurses are fru

Finance committee  If having what you just said means that provinces will work better together, by all means, but what we've come to realize with the federal transfers of money is that if there's no accountability, the money is not going where it should be going. The only way.... If money is goin

Finance committee  I can't speak for the efforts that the provincial government would be making here. I know the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions has done research on mental health, retention and recruitment. That's where our recommendations come from. The federation realizes that for us to be

Finance committee  Yes, we are seeing it. I was talking to Ms. Thompson before we started. The reality is that for young nurses now, maybe we've been doing it all wrong. I'm a mature nurse and what we call a “seasoned” nurse. The thing is that maybe we were doing it wrong; they want work-life bal

Finance committee  The reality we're seeing is that young nurses are coming into the profession, and yes, they have had some experience, but they need that support. Because there's such a nursing shortage all across Canada—and if I'm going to speak, I'm going to speak about New Brunswick—where nurs

Finance committee  We look at recommendations that we've made for pan-Canadian nurse workforce planning. In that pan-Canadian planning, as we bring in more internationally trained nurses, the reality of what you're seeing is that they come in, and by the time they get.... You can't just say, “I'm a

Finance committee  We know that an agency nurse costs two to three times more than a regular nurse. Here in New Brunswick, we know that there was a private agency nurse who was paid $300. We know that this $300 does not go directly to this nurse. We know that two to three times a nurse's salary in

Finance committee  I think there were nine recommendations that came out in 2019 from the Standing Committee on Health. We would encourage them to have a public awareness campaign to sensitize the public to the fact that it's happening and to make them realize that yes, when they are in front of a

Finance committee  I'm so sorry. I could go on....

Finance committee  Well, for sure I think the magic word is “hear” and the most important word is “accountability”. We cannot have an agreement that has no accountability on the province side. We talked in our brief about steering the boat; the federal government has to steer that boat. To be per

Finance committee  Good morning. My name is Maria Richard, and I am the first vice-president of the New Brunswick Nurses Union. I am here today on behalf of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, or CFNU. The CFNU brings together nine provincial nurses unions from every province except Quebec,