Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I stated, he talked about several important areas about putting more investment in, and this is an example of where we are actually seeing front line workers and staff added, which is a good thing to see.
There are a number of other areas that it went on to list. In the area of new initiatives, for example, standardizing physician contracts, and it lists about approximately $1.46 million; fully funding medical clinic, operating costs, another $1.4 million; accelerated development of new and revised legislation, $500,000; enhancing communicable disease control, enhancing access to cancer screening, development of on-call centre, enhanced Telehealth Programs. Now, my concern is that -- it is good to hear that we are putting more money into initiatives with health and social services. A concern that I would have is how much of this is actually going to front line people, to programs that actually help individuals on the street who are in need of programs and services through this government.
For example, I can name a few of these right off the bat, that I do not see actually increasing the staff front line. It is, in fact, more of an internal program changes -- standardizing physician contracts, will that give us more doctors? Or is that going to just clear up the situation that we find ourselves in here in the Northwest Territories? Fully funding medical clinic operating costs -- sounds like it is something we are catching up with and will not provide enhanced services. It might maintain them. Accelerated development of new and revised legislation -- that again, purely internal working and I am surprised to see that because we know in all departments right now, there are staff in place to deal with legislation, legislative proposals. When it says accelerated, I have underlined that because I want to know if that has anything to do with the Minister's announcements that he has made recently in changes to the Family Law Act, where he intends to move forward with some legislation that could be seen as quite controversial. Thank you.