Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The general practice right now is the nurses diagnose the patients and then, only if they run out of Tylenol or Halls, they send the patient to Yellowknife to get a second opinion. In my communities, and a lot of the smaller communities, there is a trend there. If you are diagnosed with cancer, it is too late. You might as well get ready for death and that is the way it is in the smaller communities.

Just for information, there are a few constituents of mine out there who have been diagnosed with cancer. However, they took it on their own to come to Yellowknife and get diagnosed over here and have gone through the treatments and are having a healthy life.

I am just wondering if we are failing in areas where nurses are doing the diagnosis and are scared to refer patients to Yellowknife, or is it maybe just their budget? Are they scared that they do not have enough money to send people to Yellowknife? Can the Minister just clarify some of those? Thank you.