Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think there's more urgency to the need than the Minister is giving us to believe. There is in fact in today's issue of the Yellowknifer some interesting information about the current level and demand. Really we are booked up here in the city. I guess what is even more interesting, especially in light of the budget that we're looking at, are the costs, Mr. Chairman, as quoted in the Yellowknifer; the cost of a patient at Aven Manor is about $130 to $140 per day. This is in an assisted living situation, whereas a more acute care patient who has to be moved to the Stanton Hospital facility, Mr. Chairman, is costing from $1500 to $1800 a day. Neither of these facilities, I'm sure as the Minister is aware, were designed for the care of dementia patients. But as our population ages this is a natural occurrence and we have more and more of these sufferers in our facilities.

I guess it's a combination, Mr. Chair, of the cost of caring for people in facilities in... It's not that they're inadequate, but they're certainly ill-equipped and ill-designed to care for those people, and the number of them that would seem to compel us to look with some urgency at bringing a facility on line. I guess I'd like to see what the Minister's comment is to that information. Thank you.