Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, my question to the Minister is in the area of assisting communities to develop capacity, especially in the areas that a couple of my colleagues have touched on. In small communities, we have definitely seen a decline in programs and services. Also, because of the dependency on regional centres, Yellowknife and Inuvik, we in the communities have seen a major decline with regard to the whole area of capacity in our communities and the imbalance between the health professionals in our communities and elsewhere.

I am talking about the areas of mental health, looking at social workers. We always seem to have a problem with social workers. Simply to try to keep professionals in our communities and ensuring that we have a full slate of nurses and other people to work within the health and social services area is a real problem, trying to deal with retention and ensuring that we have the people there.

One of the other concerns is the whole imbalance between what we are paying people to work in the different mental health areas, social workers and also alcohol and drugs. We seem to have a real problem of maintaining staff for a long period of time. We seem to have a high turnover in those different areas. I would like to ask the Minister what he is doing to improve the capacity of our health professionals in our communities. I mentioned yesterday the problem we seem to run into every spring and summer, especially in Aklavik, the Delta communities and the Beaufort communities.

I would like to ask the Minister what he is doing to ensure that the communities have the capacity, so when we do have a lack of health professionals such as nurses, we have a backup system there to ensure that the other people in the different areas are able to either fill in or ensure that we have people who are there for the long term and we do not continue to see the problems we have seen over the last number of years. Thank you.