Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we've been engaged in a process now for some months in terms of setting up a separate, standalone Sahtu authority to deal with health and social services. We're currently in a state of transition, separating from Inuvik. There have been, as my colleagues indicated, a number of unfortunate deaths in the Sahtu, and the staff in the communities have been under a lot of pressure to deal with them.
The Member, as well, has been very persistent in terms of requesting that I come into the region and meet with the community leaders and we, in fact, intend to do that the second week in February with the Member. I'm talking to officials from the Sahtu authority, as well as some staff from the department, and we will sit down and we will talk about what's possible as we look at how we're going to structure services in the Sahtu so that they best reflect what are identified as critical issues by the people of the Sahtu. Thank you.