The Minister has indicated certainly some good points there in terms of the medical escorts into our health care system in terms of language, physical. I think that it needs to be stated very clearly, loud and clear, to the health centres to know that if an elder walks in and they are required to go to Yellowknife, Inuvik or Edmonton, that the first question on the list of questions, we’ll have an escort for you who can work with you, not if you understand English or can you travel alone in snow. It should be with the elders, especially with the second language as English, that we are going to have someone there. Maybe I got my words mixed up, but I think that is a something that is mandatory that the elders are given an escort to take them to a community. I think we are going to deal with a lot of these headaches that we are dealing with right now in terms of the people are travelling on their own to large centres. So I do appreciate the Minister saying in terms of the in-depth review. I hope that we can come out of the in-depth review and say this is what we have that’s clear marching orders for the health centre. I think that would put a lot of relief to people in our communities, knowing that this issue here is taken care of. I will work with the Minister in terms of how we go about this. It is very important and very critical. I hope that by the end of this Assembly, the Minister will bring forward a policy or strong marching orders.
Mr. Chairman, I want to also say that in terms of the Sahtu health authority, in terms of the administration, she talked on really good the application of programs and services under the Health and Social Services. The application of the program sometimes we have a different view of how things should be applied to and what application should apply to the program should be done. I’m starting to hear rumblings. Maybe I need to work with the Minister on this in terms of how the application of certain programs in the Sahtu health
authorities are administered and if there’s… One is to look at some of these issues before they get to a critical point of he said, she said and we are at a standstill as to how we deliver programs. I have received a phone call that wasn’t too good this morning in terms of our health board. I haven’t had a chance to talk to Members of the health board, but I think I’m getting more phone calls in terms of our operations. So I want to see that we work with the Minister in terms of how we deal with these issues face on. The Minister could provide me with some ways as to how we could do this here. I know there are some suggestions. I would like to talk to her about it. However, it is unfair to me to say it right now because I have not yet had that in-depth discussion with her.