Mr. Speaker, Dr. Covert is qualified, according to the laws of this Legislature, and the Medical Profession Act, to sit as the president of the Board of Inquiry. If I were to arbitrarily decide because of questions in this Legislature that he was somehow unfit, Mr. Speaker, it would be extremely difficult to find another physician in the Northwest Territories who would be willing to serve in such an atmosphere of politicization of the quasi-judicial process. Secondly, I think we would have to scrutinize anyone else who was asked to serve whether or not there was any litigation past or pending which might be a bar to him serving or continue to serve. In effect, Mr. Speaker, I think it would go to the very ability of the Medical Profession Act to establish medical boards of inquiries.
This kind of a precedent would make it impossible for us to establish a board of inquiry, at least with physicians from the Northwest Territories, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.