Mr. Chairman, there's no question that the prevalence of cancer is one of grave concern to the people within the department, as I know it is with residents of the NWT. Rather than speaking to new methods, I think the office of the chief medical health officer and the people who are in the public health side of the health and social service system are putting a lot of energy into making people in the health system aware of the various methods of early detection. I think early detection, as the Member spoke to, is critical to the success rate in terms of helping people get over their cancer. We have cancer as a registerable disease, so that we require that all cases of cancer are registered so they get prominence and so that the physicians in the system are aware of people who are suffering, but also that we are aware of trends in the NWT.

We're using a publication called "Epi North" which is a newsletter that goes to all people in the health and social services system. The editorial is to have a section dedicated to cancer and early detection in every issue of that newsletter, so that the various opportunities that people have to assist in early detection are made known and are kept current in people's minds. Those are particularly areas where there is a lot of energy being put.

I think it is equally relevant that people understand where the at-risk populations are and what constitutes "at-risk." So there is a lot of work, both within the North and across Canada, to identify people who are more susceptible than others and focus energies on those at-risk populations. Thank you.