Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the Minister for these five pages of performance measures and I would like to ask some questions. If I could ask the Minister, in regard to page 20, when you talk about improving the health status of the people in the Northwest Territories, the whole page, in terms of what we are aiming for, target and timeframe. If I use the reduction of tobacco use in youth, you want a sustained decrease of incidence of tobacco use over the next ten years. That tells me nothing. What is the tobacco use as we speak and where do you want to be in ten years?
You want a sustained or an increased number of anti-smoking advertisements during the next three years. What currently exists that you will measure from? You want a sustained decrease in hospitalization rates over the next five to ten years. What are we at now, where do you want to move to and in what sort of increments? Sustained decrease in the number of self-reported regular heavy drinkers over the next five to ten years. What are we measuring from? The list goes on, on that page. On the next page there is sustained decrease, sustained reduction. It tells me nothing. I do not know what we are measuring. If you come back next year you can tell us anything because we do not know what your benchmark is. That is one issue. If I could switch to pages 22 and 23, there are three identical desired outcomes that are repeated on page 22. The alignment of services to identify needs for seniors, disabled children and youth. You switch over, the same desired outcome is there, the alignment of services for seniors, disabled children and youth. They are almost identical, word for word. You have added one or two things under what we are aiming for. The Northwest Territories model for delivering primary health care is repeated twice. It is there twice. It is repeated on the next page. I do not know the difference.
Alignment of Health and Social Services board structures and public aboriginal government structures is listed and on the next page it is listed again almost word for word. It would seem to me to be redundant. If these are your improved, revised and enhanced performance measures, just from my first cursory look at it I would have some questions in those two areas.