Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this goes right back to the essence of the initial opening comments and my response to board accountability and responsibility to the people they serve. As we know the Inuvik situation is a bit different then other boards as they had a board representative of every single community. When I first took over responsibility for Health and Social Services back in the fall of 1995, they found that the Board was not effective, it was too large and not conducive to being productive on numerous occasions when I met face to face with them or through correspondence or speaking to their MLAs. They chose to downsize that board dramatically, as the Members know, to have a representative from the Sahtu, from the Gwich'in, from the Inuvialuit, from the town of Inuvik, from the town of Norman Wells and the chairperson. I would say that depending on the circumstances, those representatives of those groups in the
communities that they represent are the avenues to appeal or lodge complaints if community members or community leaders feel that their interests are not being looked after and their issues are not being resolved, as a first avenue. If their representation on that board is not deemed to be adequate or deemed not to be representative, I guess I would leave it to the people that they represent to make that individual accountable. Failing that, of course, there is always the avenue of coming to myself as the Minister of the department as ultimately being responsible for bringing forth the issue. If it is a legitimate issue that our standards are not being met, our expectations, then we would intervene. Otherwise, if it is logistically a board decision, then we would stand by it, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.