Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker and Members will recall that, yesterday, I raised an issue before this House that is of critical importance to the people of Fort Smith. I am referring to the need for a public inquiry under Section 2 of the Public Inquiries Act into the administration and quality of medical services provided to the residents of our community.

Mr. Speaker, I have reviewed in Hansard the comments made by our new Minister of Health and frankly, again, I am dismayed. The Minister has commented, and I am aware that this is from the unofficial transcript that I looked over, and I quote: "I do not know where anyone is getting the impression that there is something to hide. I do not know how a Board of Inquiry, under the Medical Profession Act, would give the impression of secrecy." Well, Mr. Speaker, I would like to tell him where.

The terms of reference, established for the Saskatchewan-based report he has now referred to the Board of Inquiry, states that any information to which a Member of the review committee becomes privy shall be treated as confidential, both during the review and after submission of the final report. At the very least, Mr. Speaker, I certainly think that this could be an influential argument that the doctors on the Board of Inquiry will use to their meetings in private. The Minister has stated, in response to my Honourable colleague from the Mackenzie Delta, that the Board of Inquiry will also have the ability to look at other issues raised by the Saskatchewan report about broader issues.

Let us not forget what these people from Saskatchewan felt were the broader issues. Let us remember what the issues that residents of Fort Smith think are important. We do not even know what broader issues the Saskatchewan doctors identified because, of course, the report is confidential. Mr. Speaker, in closing, I have two questions and two comments for honourable Members to think about.

The first one is, how many answers did the general public in Yellowknife...