Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, there are a couple of areas I would like to quickly touch on. As I indicated in my previous comments, steps are being taken to bring the departments to the table within government to put some special attention and focus on this particular issue.

As well, we already have in place in the regions and communities fairly extensive health and social services systems. It is the intent to use the systems that are there, the authorities that are there, the representatives that are there, along with the community leadership to identify not only the issues but the type of project that is determined to be best suited to meet some of those needs, at which point we will be doing this in a whole number of communities. We have to pull together the cost and then we have to go forward with an attempt to get the funding necessary to make these particular projects a reality.

The commitment is there in the action plan to do that. I agree with the Member. This is not a time for, as he said, reinventing the wheel, or taking months and months of study. We know that we are running late and it is not just oil and gas. We have the affected areas in the North Slave and other areas where there is resource development possibly pending.

This is a job that needs to get done and we do not have time to waste, as the Member indicated. Thank you.