It comes from your department. It is the Government of the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Health Protection Unit, Northwest Territories Registry, June 9, 1999. Out of the Northwest Territories alone, there was some 679 people diagnosed with cancer. Yet in the Inuvik region, there is almost 200. Almost one-third of those people are in the Inuvik region. In Aklavik, there was an estimated 20. This is from 1991 to 1996.

I would like to ask the Minister, in her response, it is up to the individual. I hate to be blunt, but to come right out and say to a lot of people that I have received correspondence from or talked to family members on the different deaths that occurred lately, these people have been going to the health centre time after time after time, to a point that people have to practically threaten somebody on the health board or threaten a particular doctor to take action before they are sent to Yellowknife to be diagnosed. Yet the statistics tell us that it is a problem.

I want to ask the Minister, what is her department doing to spruce up the area of testing and ensuring the evaluation is done on patients, so that we have results so people do not have to continue to carry on? If you are sick, you are sick. You go to a health centre, you see a doctor because you feel sick. People do not go there because they want to harass the doctor or the nurse or whoever.

When people come to a point where...in the results of this TB case in my riding, I just sent a letter to the Minister yesterday from another constituent of mine where her dad passed away from stomach cancer. This guy was sitting in the hospital for four days and they wanted to send him home because they needed the bed in the hospital, so they put him in long-term care for four days and were going to send him back to Aklavik, but he had to call his daughter who was away at school and she had to call a doctor to demand that he be sent to Yellowknife. If that is the process, we have to get this department to really react to health care issues. What is this health care system coming to? I know recruitment and everything else is great, but we are spending millions of dollars to fly people around the world to look for nurses, meanwhile the system is slowly deteriorating to a point where people are not even meeting the basics of their health care.

I think it is important as a government that we seriously start doing more in analyzing the information and also being able to get more technology out there. If we can use the technology and have that information available to people so they can get earlier detection with regard to cancer and other diseases that are out there, TB or whatever, it will save us money in the long run from having people who are passed that stage of being able to be treated and having to have them pass on. I would just like to ask the Minister again, what are they doing to improve it and when are we going to see these new results published to give us the latest statement where you mentioned there is an increase?