Health care should be on the top of that list. Many have said they would even pay more tax to ensure coverage of everyone and to avoid co-payments when they are sick, elderly, and less able to pay. Let’s listen to what our employers and the taxpayers say and make fair health care for all priority number one. The public response has been clear, expressed eloquently through public submissions and beautifully captured by the Elders Parliament resolutions supporting supplementary health benefits for everyone.

Mr. Speaker, much of supplementary so-called health care is, in reality, basic health care. I am asking: could this government, if it had the will, find a way to provide fair and basic health benefits and services to all citizens of the NWT regardless of race or culture? Mr. Speaker, let’s keep our people here in the North. Mahsi.