Certainly, Mr. Chairman, I agree with the Member for speaking in support of the bandwidth. Certainly we would see it beneficial in our communities and to lend our support to see this government put some resources that would eliminate some of the headaches that we have in our smaller health centres in terms of providing efficient health care to our residents in the Sahtu and other communities that certainly would benefit from an e-health care system. If you could work closely with your Cabinet colleagues.
I want to ask the Minister in terms of working with our health boards. It’s about three years now that my community in Tulita and Sahtu that’s been working on every different angle to have a social worker in my community. Somehow we seem to not get to that resolution. There are always numerous excuses not to have a social worker there. It seems that we are regressing in terms of the goals of what’s stated in the program delivery support. I want to ask the Minister how much longer our community has to wait until we actually get a social worker in our community to serve the people there. If they say lack of housing or culture sensitivity or any of those excuses we’ve heard before, it’s going to raise my temperature here. I just want to know why we can’t get a social worker in our community. Break through those barriers, break through those excuses. If you want to work with us, work with us.
I want to ask the Minister again, we went to Tulita, we had a good meeting, but that was it. I go back there and there’s no social worker there. I went and talked with the health board, they gave me the reasons why they’re not having one there. But we’re not serving our people. We’re just satisfying the system here. The people want, at the end of the day, to see a social worker in Tulita. Let’s see how serious this department, this government is in terms of getting some of these resources in the communities where it’s needed.
I want to, I guess, maybe challenge the Minister and her department, hopefully by the end of this
government we’ll have a social worker in Tulita. I want to ask the Minister in that sense.