Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think what I am asking for here is to improve the capacity in communities, not to get back to the dependence here of having to depend on regions and other larger centres. That is the concern that I have. You might have all these people at headquarters and at the regional level, but they are not available to a lot of communities in regard to delivering programs and services. You might see a doctor in the community once a month if you are lucky, and if you are not on the waiting list, you wait until the next month.
Then you wonder why we are spending so much money on medical travel and other things. It is because of the lack of services being provided to our communities. I would like again to hopefully get the Minister to hear clearly that he did not misconstrue what I am saying, that we will continue to depend on regional centres. That is a concern of the communities, that we are not being served by regional centres.
Whenever they have to shut down the health centres, they do not shut down the wards in the Inuvik hospital. They shut down the health centres in our communities. What are you doing to ensure that our health centres and programs that are being delivered are being filled, and that we do not have to see health centres being closed at certain times of the year because of the lack of nurses or service people, and we are not able to fill it or else there is a reluctance to fill it and they say we will take care of you at the regional level? That is not working.