The community of Tsiigehtchic appreciates what the Minister is providing. The community is requesting a full-time nurse in the community. That’s what they are requesting: full-time. Not six months, full-time. So that’s where I am coming from in regards to providing those services full-time in those communities.
Like I said, the community has done everything they can. They’ve purchased a housing unit so that they can’t use the excuse we don’t have housing for nurses in the community. They did that on their own. They’ve done that through their charter community. They are working to try to find ways to get policing in their communities by allowing them usage of facilities they have in the community which can accommodate the RCMP to stay overnight. The community is trying to do everything they can to attract everything to their communities, but what we need from this government is a commitment that those people that they do get there, they are going to have a care provider that is constant. That you work out that relationship between yourself and the provider, so you know who the elders are, you know who George Naditchie is or you know who these different elders in our communities are.
Again, I request from the Minister, is it possible to have a full-time nurse in Tsiigehtchic in a short time frame, knowing spring is coming forward? We know there will be a nurse there during breakup and freeze-up. I am requesting if that is possible to have a full-time nurse in the community in the immediate future.