Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as the Member knows, with the building of the new health centre in Norman Wells, we are also adding a long-term care facility, an 18-bed long-term care facility. This is the first long-term care facility in the Sahtu and we're very excited about opening it. However, it is going to require a large number of new positions to be established in the Sahtu. To date, we have worked with SSI and the Inuvialuit Aurora College to do some training of some local individuals that did occur in Inuvik on resident care aid training, so that we could start getting some people ready for those positions when they are established.
As the Member knows, and I think all Members are aware, we are in an incredibly tight fiscal situation. We will be coming forward through the business planning process to establish some positions in the Sahtu to fill those needs, but we do have to compete against other priorities and other challenges, and recognizing the tight fiscal situation we as a government, we as Members of the Assembly, are going to be forced to make some difficult decisions about reductions or corrections so that we have money available to invest in new priority areas, new mandate items, as the Government of the Northwest Territories. So we are all going to have to work very hard. In the meantime, as I've indicated, we're working on training some individuals. Some market housing units have been built in Norman Wells that will hopefully help accommodate people who we will have to hire from outside. But ultimately, with many of these jobs, it would be best to train and hire local employment.