Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Minister of Health and Social Services. It is in regard to the quality of health care services being provided out of the Inuvik Hospital, and the deficit situation they find themselves in.
Speaking as the Member for Mackenzie Delta, each community has a lot of money designated for community expenses for health and social services, yet services continue to be taken away from communities, moved to Inuvik and then, basically, administered out of Inuvik. They fly people into the community, put them up in a hotel for a week and then fly them back.
Mr. Speaker, the Inuvik health board has a major deficit year after year after year, and yet nothing seems to be done about it. With regard to Stanton Hospital, you basically have a caretaker administrator put in place; they go in there and they basically micro-manage the thing to death. I’d like to know why you aren’t doing that in the case of the Inuvik Hospital.