Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Specialists act in many cases as consultants to general practitioners, and the patients go from a general practitioner and get referred to see a specialist. As you've seen by some of our indicators, our aging population and some of the prevalent issues that are affecting us in terms of the cancers and the other health issues, there are lot of issues in terms of orthopaedics, and a lot of colorectal cancer issues as well; lung, heart, circulatory because of diabetes, that the specialists do provide a valuable service. We, as well, track the number of patients the doctors, especially specialists, see. As well, we have arrangements -- since we can't provide all specialist services in the Northwest Territories -- with Capital Health in Edmonton where those services that we don't provide here, patients are referred south.
So it is, without a doubt, a very high end, expensive service. The average salary for a specialist is over $400,000 a year, but it's a service that is important and one that we want to make sure is as efficient and effective as possible. Thank you.