Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I certainly think that the consultation and the buy-in will be important, will be critical, in seeing that this is successful. I think certainly people who are in this field are passionate about what they do and we don't want to give some people the sense that we are trying to raise the qualifications, raise the criteria, raise the standards solely to run people out of jobs. I think the focus here has to be on improving the level of service to residents and working with alcohol and drug workers to improve the service and not seen to be something that is imposed on them.
I will look to another point, Mr. Chairman, and that is the committee's disappointment that we haven't been successful in rolling out a 1-800 number that would allow people to access nursing care over the phone from all jurisdictions in the Northwest Territories and help them make a decision as to whether or not they need to go into see their health care practitioners. Certainly, the document the Minister just unveiled today, the document entitled Do I Need to See the Nurse or Doctor that goes through a number of common ailments and indicates what folks may or may not do and gives them some sense of whether they need to see the doctor is very good and very important, but I think it's certainly something that should be done in conjunction with the 1-800 number. I think the two pieces together would make a very comprehensive package, especially given the run on emergency services that we've seen, at least in Yellowknife. I would like to ask the Minister for the trends and the numbers of people presenting at the unit, but it seems to me it is getting busier and busier and people are, instead of waiting for a good length of time to see someone at a clinic, if it's important, if it involves a child, if it's something that maybe they could make a phone call to a nurse, they simply have no other choice but to present at emergency and queue up for six to eight hours if it's a non-life-threatening situation. I think the 1-800 number, with the document the Minister has unveiled today, would have been a great complement and I think would have taken some of the strain off emergency services. So I would like to get an indication from the Minister what we are looking at doing with regard to the 1-800 number.