Thank you, Mr. Speaker. These facilities provide employment to people in the communities. With the social problems we see in our communities, where people are leaving our communities because they can’t find jobs and whatnot, this government has a responsibility to ensure that we provide services in communities, not all at the regional level. That’s exactly what I’m hearing from the Minister. Everything we do in the Mackenzie Delta, we have to go to Inuvik for our services. That should not be the case.
I’d like to ask the Minister again: when is this government going to decentralize programs back into communities so they can really provide services for communities? We don’t have any
services, because they’re all being allocated to the Inuvik region. I’d like to ask the Minister again: when will we see an improvement in services to elders in our communities instead of having to export our seniors out of our communities to programs and services offered by the Department of Health and Social Services?