Just the last area, I suppose. I’m just wondering if the department would be looking into the whole home care area. When the Minister and I did travel into Fort Resolution, the community had talked about home care. A lot of the community members talked about home care and maybe improving the service of home care, changing the mandate of the people who are doing the home care in Res and Lutselk’e. The community there would like to see more staff added to home care.

I was wondering if the department had some sort of plan to examine the whole home care program, weighing the benefits of that against maybe individuals who would otherwise — without the little bit of assistance living comfortably — either be displaced from their homes or cost more money medically into the future if home care support were to be reduced or not changed, or if the home care program were not up to speed with the needs in the community — the various needs and so on.

My question for the Minister is: has she and her department looked at the home care program for increased support to the small communities?