Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The reason for my question is, I know I have seen some articles in the press saying that Yellowknife is ten or 11 physicians short of what it should be, according to a study that was done three years ago.

You are saying, in effect, we almost always have 20 physicians in town. So we are running closer to four or five physicians short, which will probably provide some level of comfort to people who were concerned that we might be much more short of physicians. That is still not the best situation. It does not deal with long-term care giving and having somebody understand, over a period of years, a person's health.

I know that the Minister said that either we are still subject to getting funds by supplementary appropriation, I assume, to deal with the situation in the long run. What if the request to Financial Management Board Secretariat is successful? Would we come forward for supplementary funds? What is the Minister's expectation of when we might see the final solution? Will it take us a year, six months, two years? What are we talking about here before we finally see the complement of physicians in Yellowknife that we need?