Thank you, Madam Chair. I agree that just on pure numbers it’s highest in Yellowknife. On a percentage basis, they’re probably one of the lower communities that are suffering from addictions. Issues with addictions and mental health, and so on, are fairly high on a percentage basis in the small communities. The intention, though, is that if we go down the list here, there are fairly good supports within the city, as well, as it is in some of the regional centres, but especially here in the city where we have most of the doctors living. The Minister’s Forum on Addictions is a part of the Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan, which a lot of the work in that action plan will affect the city of Yellowknife and the regional centres. Healthy Families, we’re expanding that. We have a Healthy Families program in Yellowknife and we’re expanding to other communities. We’re trying to go into every region.
The cancer work, as far as cancer screening, we are picking up 45 percent of cancer at stage 1 cancer. The majority of the good ability to screen cancer is in Yellowknife, not in the outlying communities. We’re trying to put a system in place so that we’re easily screening cancer outside of Yellowknife as well, but again, the doctors are here in Yellowknife and so on.
With the whole area of early childhood interventions and health and early childhood development and so on, again, lots of the services are here. We have lots of nongovernment organizations in the city. The city’s not being forgotten. We’re just trying to expand outside of the city to try to provide equal supports outside of the city. There is actually quite a bit of support here already, as far as a lot of nongovernment organizations and so on, we we’re trying to, kind of, provide a service outside that’s just not there right now. Thank you.