Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there are a number of factors that come into view as we talk about distribution of services throughout the Northwest Territories and evaluation of those programs and services. For example, there’s the capital standards process the Member alluded to in his Member’s statement of what type of construction that is permissible. In the past, the government also had, under that capital planning process, the size of the community. For example, what type of a water treatment plant fell
into a community of 100 versus 500 versus 10,000. Those were in place as well, and there are remnants of that in the system.
One of the other things we are looking at, for example in Health and Social Services, is the Foundation for Change and looking at how we distribute our services and program delivery across the North. So that’s one of the other tools we do as an evaluation of that as we go forward.
We can’t always hold the same standard, for example, if we stuck to a dollar figure per person, then we probably couldn’t afford... Well, we know we couldn’t afford our smallest communities across the North. But our goal is to come up with a best level of services and programs, and that’s why, for example, there are territorial facilities, regional facilities and then community facilities, for example. Thank you.