Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to direct my questions to the Minister of Health and Social Services and pursue the statement that I made yesterday about a long-term aboriginal northern nurse who had to turn down a permanent job after working casual for many, many years because she could not find affordable housing for her and her four kids and her husband in Yellowknife.
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that I got a call from the Minister's office this morning asking for her phone number, so I am assuming that his staff has talked to them. What I do know is that she will not be offered anything close to housing that would make it possible for her to accept this employment.
Mr. Speaker, that is really the big issue. If the government cannot offer a housing policy we have to remunerate them enough so they can afford to live here. I would like to ask the Minister, what is he doing about making it possible for these people who are from here to take the jobs in Yellowknife so they can work at the hospital? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.