Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Member has raised a lot of areas and I'll try to touch on the majority of them. Hopefully I can get all of them, but at least the more critical ones.

The issue of home care is something the department has seen as being an important piece of how we deliver the program in the Northwest Territories. We know that it is much more efficient, if that's the proper terminology to use, in dealing with people in their own homes instead of having people in facilities, institutional setting-type facilities. So that's something that we have enhanced and

will continue to work to try to enhance. We have a number of initiatives that we're working on right now to try to do that.The area of the nursing profession is one that can be quite complicated. In a sense, I guess it's a good problem to have. On the one piece of it, when we talk about our nursing college or program for Aurora College, the fact that it is so successful that we have ultimately filled the majority of positions within the territorial facility and that, in part, becomes part of the problem. As we have nurses now come and work in our facility for a number of years, even those coming from smaller communities, they set up, their families are with them to a large degree, and they start to work in this environment and then when they're done they make a selection of where they want to go. The majority of them select the larger facility. It is something that I guess in a sense we recognize, and what we're trying to do now through, for example, the meeting when we met with the nursing grad program participants about what we can offer, and some of the additional steps that could be taken. For example, we are now working through our CHN program, that's the community health nurse program or development program where a graduate coming out of the Nursing Program with Aurora College can then go into the further area of training, that we can then take them and move them into the smaller communities where we're feeling a lot of our pressure. That becomes an area that we do need to put more focus on. In fact, in our discussions, they're informing a number of the graduates or potential graduates that if they were to go to a smaller centre that their rate of remission is in fact double by going to a smaller community. So that's an incentive on its own.

The Placement Program, in a sense, it's guaranteed. People who are going through our facilities, in the Nursing Program, in the Social Work Program, the Teacher Education Program, that we would get them jobs. Part of the issue is where they want those jobs and the specific field they want to go into. Because we are a smaller jurisdiction and our facility here, we've only got a number of placements. So we ask them to pick three priority areas and try to work with them in that area. At times we're unable to meet even one of their three priorities. It is something we still have to work on with our facilities and our authorities to ensure that as we know we're going to have graduate nurses in specific areas, to let the authorities know that their names will be there and that they will be participating in our Placement Program. That's something that I think we'll have to do some work on improving, but it's something that, again, as the Member said, is, in a sense, our flagship of what we can do in the North. At one point we were competing with the nursing graduates out of southern facilities, so we're starting to get our own now and put them in our facilities. That's one thing for sure that we can say is going in the right direction.

Then the enhancement of the community health nurse program is the next stage we're working on. In the whole area with the nursing profession, the graduate program, it is something that we continue to work with. We've been back and forth on a number of occasions through the department itself, with HR, with our unions and how we set up our program to work with nurses. There is still some work to be done in that field. It is a challenging area. We do still suffer from some shortages and a sense of our use of agency nurses, which is part of our program to curtail that, but we have to ensure we have enough nurses in place to keep all of our facilities open across the Territories.

I hope that's the majority of area we need to...We're working on and issues that have been raised by the Member. Thank you.