In Quebec we are in a much better position than the rest of Canada in terms of recruiting nurses, mental health nurses, psychologists, psycho-educators, and the mental health specialties we need. It is very hard to recruit people for Port-Cartier, which is a maximum institution. There are offenders with mental health problems there, so it's not easy to recruit. But we are in a much better position.
In fact with the institutional mental health initiatives we were able to staff.... We have 24 mental health specialists who we were able to add to our regular staff during the last two years. We were quite lucky in Quebec to get those people. I'ts the same with community mental health initiatives.
A better way to keep people--it's very easy to get them sometimes, but we want to keep them--is diversification of the tasks they have. It's the training. It's working on the culture also, because working in corrections when you are a mental health specialist is not always easy. So we are working on the culture. We are training our people. We give them the possibility of changing their workloads and the people they work with.
So I guess in Quebec we are in good shape.