Thank you, Madam Chair. If I may, I would just like to quickly respond as well to some of the questions and suggestions made by the honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, as well as Mr. Menicoche. In the issue of capping costs in the Northwest Territories to contain our costs, my suggestion and my opinion is that the best way to control our costs in Health and Social Services is at the front end, and as the Social Programs committee has identified as well, and that is on the personal choice side and getting people to make the right personal choices when it comes to drinking and
smoking, what they eat, and exercising enough so that they maintain their health. That is a savings beyond price, there is a dollar savings, but good health is something that is critical to us all. So capping costs at the other end would just disadvantage, in my opinion, the people we are here to serve and whose wellbeing we are trying to better. This is an issue that is on the table with the broad range of other issues that we are talking about with the federal government when it comes to resources, funding, and structural inequities that have to be fixed so that we have appropriate resources as we sit on one of the hottest economies in the Northwest Territories constantly stand cap in hand before Ottawa shuffling our feet and tugging our forelock, asking for a few more sheckles to help the people. It is not a position I think any of us like to be in. So we have to be vigilant, we have to maintain the pressure.
With regard to the issues raised by the Member for Nahendeh, yes, we have made note of the good issue you raised in this House, and touched on again today about the issue of talking to the authorities about effective cross-cultural training. It is something that I have committed to that we will do. As well as when we do finally get our calendars in sync and we make the tour to Nahendeh, I look forward to sitting down with the Member and the leadership there, and the board, to talk about services in the communities like Wrigley where there was a nurse position at one time, but there is no longer, and what options there are within the resources we have to look at improvements. So I look forward to working with the Member there as well.