Just to answer the Member’s first question, as the Member knows, we did have a prior briefing on this and we did send some documents that the Member has asked for. I believe it was sent in an electronic version and I’m assuming those were made available. If not, I could make that available to the Member.

Secondly, I know what the Member is asking. I think she wants to see right in front of her how many beds in how many communities, in what communities, in what year for the next 20 years. I think what we need to discuss about long-term care. We know that the Department of Health along with Public Works has completed a long-term care facilities review that gives us a plan to go forward on where the population projections are and what the requirements should be for long-term care.

When we are talking about long-term care, we often think of seniors’ care, but it also includes institutional caring or facility caring of people who cannot be taken care of otherwise.

But what I also need to tell the Members is that there are other ways of taking care of residents who need assistance, and a lot of that work is being done in Yellowknife already. We may not know it, but there are many streets in Yellowknife where there are group homes and they have them in other communities in a limited sense. My point is, there is more than one way of taking care of those residents who need assistance.

There is never enough space. There are always people on the waiting list, and how fast we move on that is a question of resource. That’s what we do every year, is to try to find money as the Legislature, to see how quickly we move that and how much budget we have allocated for them. The way to do that is to have a needs study, and we have just finished that needs study. It’s something that we need to work together on. The institutional setting is the last resource, I believe. Going forward, we want to put less and less people in these institutions. What we want to do is to be able to support them in other ways. I can undertake to provide the Member with how many beds we have in different communities to help persons with the need for assisted living that are not necessarily in institutions. Thank you.