Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Obviously I'm going to be supporting the motion. This last two and a half weeks we've had a number of questions to the former Minister of Health and Social Services and the new Minister of Health and Social Services in regards to health care here in the Northwest Territories and where we're going with that. I was happy to see the Minister come up with the action plan for the future. I think it's a good step, although I think we are missing a key ingredient and that is the staffing, and I think it has to go in conjunction with any type of action plan, you have to and need some surety on the staffing and the levels have to be there in order to provide quality care to our residents here in the Northwest Territories. I think the reliance to just pick up the phone and dial 1-800-NURSE and get agency nurses in here is just a practice that is done I think far too often just because it's the easiest thing to do. I think we have a lot of room for improvement in the area of recruitment and retention, especially when new nurses move to the Northwest Territories, fast-tracking them so that they can get jobs and they can get on the floor and be providing the quality of care that our residents need. I think any delay in that regard should just not be acceptable, Mr. Speaker.

Again, I want to thank my colleagues for putting this motion together and getting it on the floor of the House. We can have some discussion and we can send a clear and a strong message to the government that we have to be doing more than we are currently, especially in terms of staffing. Our residents deserve the best that we can deliver, Mr. Speaker, and I think we're not doing it right now. We need to focus our efforts in the area of staffing, recruitment and retention of health care professionals here in the NWT. Mahsi.