Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am going to pick up where my friend from Tu Nedhe left off with respect to some of the conditions in the hospitals. We have some very good brick and mortar facilities on the ground here in the Northwest Territories. As I mentioned in my Member's statement, I have had a couple of grandchildren in the last couple of months. I
have had a chance to hang out at the hospital a little bit lately. I was pretty disappointed, I have to tell you. I want to say top marks to the staff, the doctors, nursing staff; just unbelievable. The condition of the facilities, embarrassing. Like paper thin pilly sheets stretched over rubber mattresses. This is costing our government $1,000 a day. Are these facilities not being properly resourced to be maintained?
Let me give you some other examples. Who could sleep on that? There is not even a proper sheet on there. Do we need a foundation or some people in the private sector to raise some money to donate sheets to the hospital? You may have to go out and actually maybe just bring your own linen. I did that. I went out and bought a mattress to put over that so that my daughter-in-law didn't have to sleep on a rubber mattress with something so thin like you wouldn't even find something like it at the dump. Then, in the room, obviously they were thinking about repainting and they had patched all the wall but just left all the patching on there and never painted it. I can understand there is a high volume of traffic through these hospitals, but come on. Set aside one room, finish painting it. Base cove missing, curtains all hanging higgledy-piggledy. You wouldn't see a curtain like that on skid row. Hems all half hanging out. I'm sorry. It is the truth. I will take photographs. I will show you. It was dirty and dingy.
The waiting room had about 50 dead plants where you sit in obstetrics. Go check it out. There is a big sign that says do not touch the plants. The only touching you want to do is grab them and huck them in the garbage. They were dead! Anyway, I could not believe the condition of the facility. I don't agree that there are windows open at 45 below or anything like that, but, I will tell you, the facilities are in tough shape. Are these facilities not being properly resourced to have proper linen and proper maintenance? You would not let government employees work in an office that looked like that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.