Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, while some of my colleagues this past weekend were playing hockey in the Liard Valley, other Members of this House, Mr. Todd, Mr. Pollard and myself, were out working. I want to say, Mr. Speaker, that I regret not having the opportunity to go play hockey with my colleagues, because I had to respond to a request by Mr. Todd to visit his constituency, Rankin Inlet, where we had some very productive meetings with the Keewatin Regional Health Board and with the hamlet mayor and council.
Mr. Speaker, I regret that I did not get over to Whale Cove because the weather was not co-operative. However, the concerns of Whale Cove were expressed to other members of the travelling group by teleconference while my deputy minister and I met with the chairperson and the executive director for the Keewatin Regional Health Board in a private meeting that was also very productive.
Mr. Speaker, I believe that it is in just such meetings like this that good repartee can be established, and I hope that they will continue in the future in the spirit of consultation at a community level. I feel that is where you can get the flavour of what the real problems are, and I just want to say that so far I have been to Thebacha, Nahendeh, South Baffin, Iqaluit, Hay River, and now Rankin, and I look forward to...