Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to speak of an individual who is no longer with us. She was a mother, a grandmother, a sister, a daughter, a teacher and a friend to the community. Mr. Speaker, her life was taken from her at a young age of 52 years. The Canadian life expectancy is somewhere in the range of 70 to 80 years.
Canada is recognized as the best country in the world to live, yet a disease such as tuberculosis still prevails in a lot of our aboriginal communities.
Mr. Speaker, people have been asking for a public inquiry. I have tabled documents in this House, petitions from my riding. There has been a Ministerial Forum on Health. A report was filed in this Legislature. Yet, Mr. Speaker, these instances continue to arrive.
Through asking questions on a public inquiry, it is not a question of putting blame on any individual. It is to find a way to improve our health care system, to make recommendations to improve our health care system so other people will not have to go through what Ms. Effie Blake had to go through for over two and a half years before finally dying from a disease that, in this day and age, is treatable and preventable.
Mr. Speaker, I have a question to the Minister of Health. What will it take for this government to launch a public inquiry into the death of Effie Blake of Fort McPherson?