Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have one final area that I wanted to talk about and that is regarding the doctor visits and the concern arising from that, the limited amount of visits. I know for a fact, it was raised to me a number of times over the summer, in the community of Fort Providence, we had not seen a doctor in over three months, as a result of the lack of doctors being available in other regional centres, mainly Hay River.

The concerns that were brought up to me and some of the recommendations that they suggested I bring up here, should that happen, given the long periods when we do not have anyone coming into the community, especially with the seniors, if there was any way we could look at providing them with medical travel to go to other institutions. It was pointed out that possibly southern institutions. It is not a good situation to be ill with any kind of disease or health problem and then have to sit there and wait and wait and not really know when the problem or the situation will be rectified and we will see a doctor in our communities.

I think that it was a fairly good comment that was made and I wish to bring it to the Minister's attention. I brought it up in the House and he has indicated that he is willing to talk about it, but I would like to hear if there is a solution, if there is another way we can deal with the people in the communities who are not well, while there is no doctor who lives in the community on a regular basis.