Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is directed to the Premier in regard to the issue of capacity in our small communities.

We know we have challenges, but we also have to find unique solutions to our challenges. I would like to compliment the Department of Justice in regard to policing in Sachs Harbour — looking at solutions on how to get policing into the ten communities that don’t have police officers. Yet the Department of Health has had nurses located in our communities. Knowing that those capital dollars were expended, I would like to ask the Premier…. From our small communities we have unique challenges, but it seems like it’s not really been addressed as it has been with the Department of Justice.

I’d like to ask the Premier: how is it that the Cabinet in this government is going to work with small communities to realize we have unique challenges and we have to have unique solutions? We can’t operate under the same roof.

I would like to ask the Premier: what is he doing to ensure that we find ways to deal with decreased capacity issues in communities that are unique — because of our size, location and also logistics — to deliver progress and services to all people in the Northwest Territories and that we ensure that the health and well-being of our communities are the first and paramount priority of this government?