Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regard to my Member’s statement, it has come to my attention that there has been a letter sent to two elderly individuals who are in the Joe Greenland Centre receiving long-term care support. Mr. Speaker, I’d just like to read a sentence out of the letter. It says, “The staff will help you transition to your family’s home on or before February 16, 2011, by 5:00 p.m.” So they’ve got to be out of there exactly at 5:00 p.m., February 16th .

Mr. Speaker, we had a public meeting in Aklavik on January 25th , with the Minister of Health, the

Minister of Housing and also the deputy minister of Health. It was a four-hour meeting with over 100 people, the residents of Aklavik in attendance. That was a meeting where the community... It was the first time they have ever been consulted on the

closure of the Joe Greenland long-term care side of the wing. But yet, Mr. Speaker, we committed at that time to work with the community to develop a transitional plan, look at exactly how the families are going to be dealt with, the employees that are basically going to be losing their jobs, and try to find a workable way through this situation.

I’d like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services why this letter was sent after the commitments we made in public in the Aklavik community meeting, and more importantly, the commitments we made there, or the Minister made, to work with the community to work out a smooth transition for this process and not to have these types of letters sent to family members and notify them that they’ve got two weeks to vacate the premises.