Thank you, Madam Chair. No, I don't think the Premier has been shopping in our local communities. For $405, you probably get about two or three bags, if you're lucky. I think that has to be looked at, in regard to that. That's just a comment to that, but my next question is the 25 beds that you have in the Inuvik long-term care facility, already, and you're looking at another 44, so that's going to take it up to, how much, 48. Wow. I need some of those beds, Madam Premier. The thing is, what we have to do is aging, everybody in our communities, I have of my friends who watch their parents until they're 99 and 100 years old, and sacrifice themselves to take care of their mum or their dad. I think aging in place, people, like I said, I brought this up a few times, Madam Chair, in regard to people who are shipped out to Inuvik. The only time you'll see them is at medical. The travel is over $2,000 for some of those return tickets, just for Sachs Harbour to Inuvik, or Paulatuk, or Ulukhaktok. You'll never see the person who is in long-term care unless you're going for medical. I think something has to be done in regard to working with the community, and that's what I'm trying to do.
Because, for me, seeing all those beds in Inuvik, it's good for Inuvik, and the jobs are going to be good; I have no problem with that, but, at the end of the day, I want my elders, because, as Inuvialuit, we take care of our elders, and it's really disheartening to see family, when they're being pulled away and they know it, and the only time they're going to come home is in a box. That's how it works. That's got to change; the mentality of that has got to change. If we could build six beds for long-term in Ulukhaktok and maybe four in Paulatuk, same thing in Tuktoyaktuk; but the thing is, again, it's really tough to see. Like I said, I have nothing against Inuvik in regard to getting those beds, but at the end of the day Nunakput needs to take care of our own elders.
As an Inuvialuit beneficiary and working with the Inuvialuit Development Corporation, our government wants to work together with local community governments to do stuff like this. I really need this for my communities, Madam Chair, and within the next four years I'm going to have it. That's what I want from our Premier, and the commitment. I know you're going to say, no, we can't do that, we're broke; but you have to find money. We're finding money for Stanton. You're finding money for all these other big projects for you guys. Thirty-three communities; we need help. Thank you, Madam Chair.