Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is in the area of environmental health. It is following what Mr. Krutko was talking about earlier today. Water is one of the biggest problems, one of the biggest areas that could potentially become a large problem in the Northwest Territories. We look at Walkerton and what not...there are a lot of health problems in the Northwest Territories that this government just slacks off as saying it is a lifestyle problem. However, if you listen to people and elders in my constituency and elders in other parts of the Northwest Territories, they say there are more people dying of cancer. People are not living as long.

In light of all the diseases that we experience in the Northwest Territories, Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister, should it not be the responsibility of environmental health to pay for studies that are territorial-wide? Water studies, death studies, for example? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.