Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Member is asking a fair bit of detail and I'll pass this one on to Mr. Parker so that he can give a more accurate account of how things have flowed and where the money has gone. This one, in fact, is one of our better working relationships with the federal government, by the way. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Parker.

Thank you, Mr. Parker. Ms. Lee.

Thank you. I think there's no question that we need to connect this to all the communities for all practices for everybody, because not only the remoteness of our locations of where the people are located and where the professionals are located, with a lot of people not having family doctors and we're using locum doctors, I mean these health care providers come and go, but the person or the patient who is getting all sorts of care from different people it just makes sense if we could have all the information in one place where all the professionals could access them provided that they are secure and confidentiality and that security could be protected. I mean there's no question about this project. My question, though is, is the dollar amount allocated here for the next three years, would that be sufficient to get to where we need to get to? Like you say, three years down the road what will we have achieved in terms of acceptability, and I understand that Infoway and I went to the presentation when the Alberta people were up here explaining the project and I understand that they have a better system than anywhere in Canada, but the federal government has not shown interest in funding that further. So Health Canada Infoway is one body, but we will need continued funding from the federal government to keep moving. So I have two questions there. I need to know that the Minister keeps this on the agenda with his federal counterparts to make sure that the money is placed there to finish the project. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Parker.

Thank you, Mr. Parker. Ms. Lee.

There was another part of that question which is where will we get to? When we are done with the money allocated here, what kind of services will be available to our residents? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Parker.

Thank you, Mr. Parker. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's all.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. I have Mr. Pokiak next.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Earlier I listened to an explanation by the deputy minister regarding the primary care clinic in Yellowknife with regard to the upgrades and stuff. I listened also to what Mr. Lafferty and Mr. Yakeleya were saying with regard to much needed upgrades to their health centres in Behchoko and Colville. The Minister also indicated that under the federal funding long-term reformed workspace shortfall that they may get some funding out of that additional upgrades for some of these clinics. I don't know how much work is required in terms of keeping...I understand they have the Great Slave health clinic for Frame Lake. I don't know what the other two are, but I think there are four of them in Yellowknife here. Then we are talking about one primary care clinic in Yellowknife, which Mr. Hawkins brought up earlier. I don't know if it's

possible, but I would like to make a suggestion to the Minister at this present time, Mr. Chairman, that with the $1 million identified for the primary care clinic in Yellowknife, maybe he could consider using that money to address some of the health centres in the smaller communities. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the budget as presented has gone through quite a process to get to the point where it's at, and at this point to move money to another project we'd have to establish that project first and bring it through to the system unless we find some sources of funding to deal with the emergency level areas that need to be fixed and at that point we would find it again through a supplementary process when we come to that point.

Again, through our integrated service delivery model and our work with authorities and our needs assessment when we look at our facilities, the age of facilities and when work was done on that, that helps us in how we proceed and do some of the work that's required. So at this point, the $1 million identified in that facility is not able to be moved. It's gone through the process, highlighted here. As I made commitment to Mr. Yakeleya and Mr. Lafferty about the process, we've worked with the authorities in coming up with the planning that's needed and renovations and repairs. We will continue to work with communities in trying to address the shortfall. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's the answer I expected anyway, but I thought I would throw that to the Minister for consideration. Thank you for the information.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Thank you, committee. We are on page 5-7, infrastructure acquisition plan, Health and Social Services, health services programs, tangible capital assets, total tangible capital assets, $9.873 million.

Total activity, $9.873 million.

Go now to 5-9, infrastructure acquisition plan, community health programs, tangible capital assets, total tangible capital assets, $236,000.