Thank you, Mr. Chair. In the area of improving the lives of our constituents, it is something we are going to have to continually wrestle with as Members of the 14^th Assembly, as we had to in the 13^th Assembly.

We need health care and health concerns to become priorities in our communities. For example, the situation Mr. Krutko raises concerning the quality of water. In this day and age in the Northwest Territories, we should not have to go to the river's edge to fetch a pail of water. This issue has been raised a number of times. Due to my previous experience and work as a public servant with Public Works, I know the issue has been raised.

Yes, one community had a lot of problems with its water intake in the Bear River. They have tried to fix it a number of times. Hopefully, this last time will mean it has been fixed. We cannot continually go back and repeat the same work that has been done before. The money that was spent to remedy it when it was not fixed the first time is used up and not able to be transferred to other communities that need it. We have to improve in a number of areas.

One area for improvement is we have to recognize that when health factors come up because of our delivery system, they have to be remedied. They have to become a priority. We cannot allow our communities that were developed under the watchful eye, as they say, of government departments to end up in trouble because their sources of water are not up to operating standard. There are a number of situations there. We have to definitely sit down and see if they become a health priority that has been impacted by our own systems that were set up and delivered by ourselves as government. We have to repair those systems. Thank you.