Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank the Member for the question because,

as the Member has stated, it has been a preoccupation of myself as the Minister of Health and Social Services, the department and the government, to make sure that our communities are prepared, especially in light of the fact that many of our communities are remote and isolated, many of them we have are majority aboriginal people who, especially in small communities, are more prone to perhaps not contact the flu but once contacted, complications can develop.

So one of the first things I did was to make sure that this gets on the national agenda, and I was glad to see that Minister Aglukkaq and all of the provincial and territorial Ministers accepted that the vaccines, when they came, that they had to go to remote and isolated communities, and it’s nationwide and the NWT is considered on the priority list so that everybody in the NWT will be vaccinated first.

With respect to Tsiigehtchic, Mr. Speaker, all of our communities are covered with health care services, especially right now in preparation for the influenza activity. Even though Tsiigehtchic right now doesn’t have a permanent nurse sitting there, Beaufort-Delta is ready to send extra resources to Tsiigehtchic on a moment’s notice, if the need arises. Thank you.