(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be presenting a petition, Petition 2-13(5), understaffing at the Igloolik Health Centre. It is a petition from last summer that was being petitioned by people of Igloolik that there is not enough health care workers within the health centre. It has 327 signatures from the people of Igloolik. The health centre in Igloolik presently has only three nurses. They will be eliminating one position so there will be only two nurses left in September, 1997.

Due to this the people and the Hamlet of Igloolik have stated that many health services have been eliminated. Therefore, we, the undersigned are against this elimination of government positions. We request they add more positions to increase the nursing staff to five positions within the community as these are very important positions for us. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. (Translation ends)