Thank you. Mr. Chair, I'm generally thinking about the same people, basically almost the same people, I suppose, that would provide the care for the long-term patients or extended-care patients as being students as opposed to being a staff. I'm assuming again that, in order to pick up an additional 72 people in long-term care, there would be new staff needed, considering that, I guess, Avens is staffed up and the extended care facility, I guess, is staffed up, and that currently exists. I'm thinking that there's a way where the students would provide the care to long-term care, at the same time getting educated in the field.

If it's filled up with a program and there's going to be hiring needed, I'm saying that's a golden opportunity for them to train individuals that will return back. The whole idea, I mean the federal government is investing in homecare over and above other things that they would just normally invest in because they see the value of it. What I'm saying is this is an opportunity to train long-term care people that are returning back to all 33 communities, including Yellowknife, where I'm sure there are many senior homeowners who would love to remain in their homes. This is an opportunity to provide a service to the seniors all over the North, for the homeowners to extend the life of their unit for something that they can remain in for, you know, even an additional 10 years.

We all know the numbers. I have talked about the numbers so many times, for an additional 10 years with working with the Housing Corporation to make sure that the unit is senior-friendly or barrier-free. This is an opportunity to train those people to go back. It's jobs. It's got a lot of upside to it.

I was wondering if the Minister in turning this over to a long-term care, which I agree with, would again have a discussion with the department to see what's possible and if they need to engage department education, which I think they need to. The Ministers in both have said that it would involve both Ministers. I would like to ask the Ministers if they would take another look at this before, I guess, Maybe when the other hospital is up and running. Thank you.