It is absolutely an essential part of discussions to discuss how does this relate to core health service. Mr. Speaker, maybe the Members think $8.5 million is a small amount of money. I would like to hear from the other side about how do we find that. Eight and a half million dollars every year is not a small amount of money. That would be lots of core services, Mr. Speaker.
The fact of the matter is the health care issue now is a number one issue for Canadians; all jurisdictions in Canada. Ontario is projecting that it will spend 55 percent of their budget on health services in the next two years. Quebec is projecting they’ll spend 60 percent of their dollars. Yes, we could cover all the core health, we could have nurses and doctors or whatever in every community, we could spend on medical travel, everything, all the things that we need to do we could spend 50 percent of our budget on health care. But, Mr. Speaker, the fact is in government, in the Northwest Territories, our people rely on government more than probably in Ontario. They need us for lots of different things. Yes, there might be a waste here and there, but the fact of the matter is, I don’t know why I keep saying that, but our Health and Social Services budget is, like, $370 million. In the last 10 years our budget doubled by 500 percent. Health and Social Services budget went up by 98 percent, but our population only grew by 6 percent. Thank you.