Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I for one have not seen an improvement in the health care system in the North, especially in regard to the last year, in which I think these recommendations were fully implemented and probably would have seen an improvement in the health care system.

But to date I continue to see problems in regards to closures of health clinics, health centres and also people having problems accessing health care. I think, for one, the so-called experts because they were not part of the ministerial forum, at least they had a hands-on knowledge of the problems that originate in our communities. And for us as a government to not take the communities comments seriously when we are always talking about community empowerment and bettering our communities, and dealing with community problems and community issues, here we are again today realizing that we are not getting the services that we are supposed to get or that there are some boards that are not administering the dollars that they were given on particular programs.

I for one have seen enough people in my riding die because of problems and this government's inability to move on recommendations and continue to do studies and studies until we are blue in the face. We are not seeing results and I, for one, hope that we have some legal counsel or some firm up here who will take on some legal challenges, because I think this government needs a good law suit to wake them up to the reality that we are not above the law, we are not God. For myself, I have raised this issue so many times in this House and nothing is changing in the health care system.

As a Minister who wants to do good and look at the health care system, if we are not moving on the little things, how do we expect to deal with the big things? Communities were asking for this report. We have had some 800 people make a presentation to a committee, and yet what do we tell them, "Sorry, your input does not mean anything because we are going to go and do another study anyhow" and that is exactly what we are doing.

In this day and age when people are dying of diseases that could have been prevented, and are preventable, there is something wrong with our health care system. I for one feel that continuing to pass the buck or blame this group or blame that group, is not going to get us out of this mess. It is action that is going to get us out of this mess. The action that the communities are asking for. They want to have more say in their health care system. They want to have more resources so they can deal with their problems in the communities with respect to alcohol and drug problems, mental health, community well-being. But the nickels and dimes that you throw at the problem, that is what it is. It is going to be a problem until we put some real resources into it.

I would like to know from the Minister exactly what are they doing to improve the health care system in the small communities, with regard to the resources that we are spending on health boards and other agencies of this government, and we are not seeing the improvement in the communities, where a lot of our problems originate, because we are lacking the resources or the people in our communities to take care of our own health problems. Could the Minister tell me, where is that miracle coming from, because another study is not going to do it.