Well, I find that pretty alarming, if that’s the position of this government: that you basically have access to services but it means you have to get it from Inuvik or you have to get it from Yellowknife.
My view is: why is the federal government paying this government all this money to provide services to the residents of the Northwest Territories if you have a Cadillac model in the regional centres but you no health care services in communities, and you have to hitchhike to those centres so you can get services? That’s the wrong attitude to have, especially coming from the Minister. You have to have access to services but you have to go to Inuvik to get your services? I think we’re going backwards, if that’s the case.
I’d just like to ask the Minister exactly what has happened to this government in regard to community empowerment, community initiatives, giving the communities the resources to find their own nurses? Why couldn’t a community basically find its own locum services? Give them the money; let them run the services, because they couldn’t do any worse a job than what’s going on here today.
I’d just like to really take on the Minister’s comments about access to services. Meanwhile, there are no services in communities, but as long as you’ve got access to go to a regional centre, that’s the process of dealing with health care?