Thank you, Mr. Chair. With respect to Fort Good Hope, I appreciate the Member’s support. What we’re doing there is removing all the carpet in the health centre and replacement with impervious non-contaminable infection control appropriate flooring. It’s about health and safety of the patients and the staff and meeting our infection control standards. That’s what is going on there.
As I have said several times, we recognize the challenges of the Tulita facility. We know that facility is quite degraded and ready for replacement. It’s at the top of our list. It’s the first one that we feel needs to be done moving forward. It is a B facility, so we have a standard design. In the standard design, depending on the community, those units can include anywhere from two to four living units that are available for staff at market rent rates. That will address the problem long term.
But the Member is right; there are some short-term challenges in the community. The Member has raised them with me on several occasions. I have been talking with the department and we’re working with the Sahtu Health and Social Services in an attempt to identify some short-term solutions on that facility.