Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In response to Mr. Gargan's first question about who did the survey, the survey was commissioned by the Special Committee on Health and Social Services and coordinated through the Science Institute of the Northwest Territories. It was set up under the supervision of the Science Institute. Telephone and mail-out surveys were done in different segments. That report, along with the methodology, has been tabled in the House, Mr. Chairman, so it is available for all Members to have a look at.
In relation to whether a psychiatrist has been to Providence, I can only hope that Mr. Gargan is right and the people of Fort Providence have no need of psychiatric services. I'm afraid I can not answer on behalf of the Department of Health as to why they have chosen one community over another to send people to. One of the things our committee has said is, people should be entitled to similar services all across the territories. I would hope that people across the Northwest Territories are being treated in a similar manner. I should say we hope that they will be. However, we know that they are not, because we were told that they are not throughout our consultation process.
In fact, a lot of communities told us that they have not seen the specialist that they should see, either. The bottom line is in our report we say that we do need to get more counselling opportunities and more professional help into the communities. That's one of the things that we have identified as a problem and hope to ask the government to address through the adoption of our report.