Thank you, Mr. Chair. I really want to echo on what Mr. Krutko was saying in regard to misdiagnosis, people not being sent out in time in regard to cancer. In my communities that I represent, we’ve seen a lot of death in regard to cancer because of misdiagnosis and other certain illnesses that our staff is not basically passing along information as simple as travel to getting them down to their hospital appointments in the South.

The last 18 months I think in the communities we’ve been really hit hard with doctors’ visits and not seeing any doctors, no dental. You know, the eye doctor I think you get once a year. It’s really come down in regard to the quality of health care in the communities. It has come down a lot in regard to what we’re used to. I think our Minister and her staff in the Beaufort-Delta should meet in regard to getting a game plan and a go-forward for providing health services in the communities. It’s got to stop in regard to the lack of. It’s easy to sit down here with all these books and papers, but when you’re seeing it firsthand, Sandy, or Ms. Lee, where people are, if not dying, they’re getting sick and being sent away, and for them it’s almost a death sentence in regard to the service that is provided. I don’t mean to put it in those broad terms, but it’s true. I’ve seen a lot of good friends go this year that shouldn’t have been deceased. So it stirs up a lot of issues in regard to the service. I mean, I know you are doing your best, but the Beaufort-Delta has to really start coming onside and providing our communities with the services that we need, and not just sending them into Inuvik. We’ve got to have nurses in the community for proper checkups and day-to-day stuff.

Mr. Krutko has brought up a lot of good issues in regard to that. I won’t mention them, but I think we

have to really start working a little bit harder than what we’re doing and go and visit up north. So for me, that’s it, Mr. Chair. I look forward to a page-by-page on this Health and Social Services.