Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regard to the area of community health nursing, I know you’ve heard me many, many times talk about the nursing situation in Tsiigehtchic and I think that there’s motions passed, like I said, in the Gwich’in assemblies, passed in the Dene assemblies and this issue has always been an issue in regards to the health and the well-being of the community.

Like I stated earlier, if you look at the budgets going back to 1998-99, prior to division, if you look at all the smaller communities, you can see the amounts of dollars that were spent in regard to the different care, from nursing care to social programs. The majority of the smaller communities, in which their population is under 200, had all those services being provided and being expended to those communities based on the funding allocations. I think since then there’s been a real decline in regard to actual dollars being expended from physical bodies, service providers since that.

So I’d just like to ask the Minister, I know that there has been an issue about nursing care. I’ve spoken to the Minister several times on this matter and I was hoping that February 1st there was going to be

a nurse in Tsiigehtchic, because that was my understanding. I’ve raised that issue with the chief and the community and mentioned to them there was going to be nursing care in the community effective February 1st . So I’d like to ask the Minister

how soon are you expecting to have a nurse full-time in Tsiigehtchic?