Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed that the Member would attribute such sinister motives to my address to the Health Care Association. I tried to reach out and invite improved relations between health boards, and the Department of Health.
I suggested a number of means, by which I thought improved relations could occur. That there should be direct relationship between the Minister and Chairs, there should be communications protocol, and yes, that it would be advantageous to health boards, and to the Department of Health, if people with field experience and headquarters experience, if you like, could exchange, and have the kind of executive interchanges that are common place in the public service.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to clarify, to the honourable Member, that this would not happen without the full concurrence of health boards. It is interesting that I have just had a chance to meet with the Inuvik Regional Health Board, I made the same suggestion, and I am pleased to tell the House, that is was welcomed by the health board in Inuvik. It would be advantageous to some of their people who have experience working in the Department of Health, and vice versa, but it would not be done unilaterally. It would be done only with the agreement, and cooperation, of health boards, and the department.