Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It gives me great pleasure to support this motion. I thank the mover and the seconder as well. It’s great to see support from the larger centres.
Our communities that have no RCMP and nursing face enough challenges as it is. Many times we have cases where we wait on the RCMP for up to five hours, sometimes 12, 24 hours. We also have cases in our communities where our own residents are acting like ambulances. We have people going out of their way, which is great to see the community pull together in emergencies, but we
have people in emergencies driving our residents to Inuvik for medevac situations, and that has to stop. We need nurses in our communities and we need RCMP to make our people feel safe.