Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The money in this budget to start implementing year two of the action plan does start to address some of the requirements that were identified in order to address gaps and services, most notably the continuing support to the Stanton Hospital/Dalhousie Psychiatric Program which provides both psychiatric treatment in Yellowknife and also telehealth. That also involves working with Dalhousie to document the after-care and follow-up programs, because right now one of the gaps in our service is very much that when people are dismissed from Stanton, especially when they go in for outpatient psychiatry, they often don’t have a fully developed care plan or there’s not proper communication back to their authority. So a big part of the project with Dalhousie is to put those in place. That’s married with – you’ve heard about the Chronic Disease Management Pilot Project on Mental Health Care Pathways; these two initiatives are marrying. That’s a big part of it.

Another part of it is putting in place some staff to continue the work on standards, updating the manuals – this is an outstanding commitment – so that we do, again, have consistent standards of practice for follow-up in every authority. To that extent the budget does start to address those service gaps.