Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I would like to stress more on compassionate travel. In the small communities where there is no hospital, most of the patients, especially the elders and the handicapped are travelling alone. Last year, we found out when, I was travelling with Mr. Enuaraq to Montreal to go see the Baffin House, there was a shortage of interpreters there. Most of the elders we visited, we had to interpret for them, for simple things sometimes. The most important thing we found out was when we were dealing with medical areas with that person, there are no interpreters for them. Doctors are trying to deal with these people. So for that reason, I really urge that compassionate travel should be back. The funds should be taken back. Even if the family could pay half for the travel, if the government could probably pay half that person's travel, that would even be a good thing to do.

The other reason why I wanted to talk was about the doctors' visits to the communities. I have noticed that with doctors' visits to smaller communities, sometimes they only take a short period of time. They do not have time to see all the patients they need to see because of the travel arrangements and the duties they have to do in the hospitals. I think there should be more doctors visiting the communities. Sometimes when I find out there is a person with cancer in the community, they never knew about that person until they send the person down to the hospital which could have been prevented if the doctors visited regularly to the communities. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.