Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to discuss a little bit with the Minister and ask the Minister questions on long-term care and what seems to be the general philosophy of the department to regionalize long-term care.

As indicated by my colleague Mr. Krutko many times in this room and in committee, we talked about the need for the communities to care for their elderly, their seniors, and most of us are affected. I

don’t want to get into a long story, Mr. Chairman, but at one point, when things were a lot simpler, the elders and the seniors got to stay in their communities in what was referred to as a senior citizens home that was owned by the NWT Housing Corporation, and a service was provided by Health and Social Services in kind of like a variety of scope sort of setting where there were some people that needed more care than others. When some seniors needed more care than others, that care was provided to that senior. We had provided service through that system as a government to people in wheelchairs, to people who were in fact even to a point where people were bedridden. That allowed the communities to retain their elderly in their last days.

Now, when the policy changed and Health and Social Services withdrew from some of those smaller centres, smaller senior citizens homes that didn’t have enough beds to warrant that type of base expenditure, it left some of these homes empty. I know this is a capital discussion. I am going to get to capital. I am wondering if the Minister looked at the feasibility of putting some capital into some of the homes that at one time did provide long-term care. I am specifically referring to Our Great Elders Facility in Fort Resolution. Has the Minister looked at putting some capital into that home to make it possible for the people that are in long-term care from Fort Resolution in Hay River or Fort Smith to repatriate those people into the community and allow, too, the variety of programs that they used to care for those elders in their last days, if that was something that the Minister would consider or if that is something that the department has considered to date. Thank you.