Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Health, Every time I deal with this department, frankly, Mr. Speaker, I get more and more annoyed every day. Mr. Speaker, I was astounded today to learn that the Department of Health has once again mismanaged an agreement to fund the delivery of eye team services to aboriginal people in the Keewatin Region. The terms of this service were discussed earlier with the Keewatin Regional Health Board, and there was an agreement reached about the number of community visits and days of service to be provided. At the very last moment, just before the funding agreement with the federal government was to be finalized, the board has learned that the department has once again stabbed the region in the back. Without giving the board proper notification, it has effectively reduced the level of service by 31 per cent and plans to limit the service to Keewatin communities to one three-day visit, one visit, a year.

Mr. Speaker, I wonder who is in charge of this department. I wonder if they even care what is going on outside of Yellowknife. I am, frankly, personally, fed up with it.

Will the Minister put an immediate halt to the negotiation of the contract related to the delivery of eye team services in the Keewatin, until proper and appropriate consultation takes place with the Keewatin regional board?