Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My final question to the Premier is, there are a lot of times and a lot of cases in this House we ask questions in regard to health and well-being of the residents of the Northwest Territories, problems with our water, problems with our education systems, problems with our infrastructure and it is awfully hard to continue to take no for an answer, especially in relation to issues that I have raised and especially issues I feel are critical that we consider them in regard to the health of the people we represent. Not in relation to alcohol and drug programs or treatment programs where the medical services that we get in our communities, but also in regard to territorial programs such as the mammogram program I mentioned a couple of days ago, in which that initiative was a $60,000 item.
I felt that item probably could have been dealt with through petty cash. I thought there was a petty cash fund around that we could probably dig into. But I think as Premier and as leader of the Members of the Cabinet and our leader as the Premier of this House, I believe that you have to take a more active role in using common sense when it comes to items that are sensitive especially to people in our ridings that feel that their issues or items are important enough that they are passed through ourselves through petitions, where they make an effort to put their name on a petition; and where they call concerning issues in regards to health, medical services and especially health care, that we have to do more than just passing the buck in this House and trying to hand it off to health boards and to the responsibility that it is not the federal government's responsibility it its someone else's. I think we have to streamline this government to ensure that all aspects and all items that are discussed in this House are taken seriously.
So I ask you as the Premier and the leader of this government that an effort is made that you, through your leadership, will ensure that all questions and concerns are taken seriously or that you find an avenue to ensure that there are avenues there that will assist not only ourselves as Members because we ask the questions, but the members that we represent, hear an answer to their questions that we ask on their behalf. An answer that basically is not a flat "no" or stating that "oh it is someone else's responsibility", but we have to put a face at the end of each one of our questions and put a face of a person in a community that is suffering from alcoholism, is suffering because they were not properly treated through our health care system, through medical reasons; but also put a face on this government to show whether we care in regard to what is being said in this House and how it is being said and that it is dealt with. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.