Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The example the Member uses, the Joe Greenland facility, is an NWT Housing Corporation facility. The Member is correct that at one point Health and Social Services had more involvement in supporting the seniors and the facility such as this. We are currently working with the Housing Corporation on providing that level of service again to the individuals at both the Joe Greenland Centre, eight units that added on to the seniors citizens home in Aklavik, and a new facility that is planned for Fort McPherson of approximately eight or nine units

that’s an assisted living facility. Part of the Housing Corporation’s inventory, but Health and Social Services is going forward with an enhanced home care project or program and our intention is to try to keep individuals in their home communities and even in their homes working, again, with the Housing Corporation on some homeownership stuff in their home communities, possibly in their homes, as long as possible as part of the continuum of care that we provide for seniors in part of a national project that is called Aging in Place.

That is what the Health and Social Services will be working on, and we agree that we need to provide a certain level of service to those communities to keep their seniors there as long as possible. However, it is very difficult and very costly to provide what we refer to as long-term care. That rating of care is expensive. It’s over $100,000 per person and is best housed in an area like Avens here in Yellowknife, Inuvik’s Woodland Manor, Northern Lights in Fort Smith, and a couple of the newer facilities that we’re earmarking as long-term care facilities, called long-term because that’s what they are. There are more services there but we can provide a certain level of service that’s required in the next level community that was essentially talked a bit about here in our last response.