Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the past few weeks, throughout Canada, we have watched our seniors' homes be the hardest hit by the pandemic. The number of deaths and the truths about the care that they have received in private seniors' homes is heartbreaking and should not happen in a country like Canada.

I am grateful that the Northwest Territories cares for our elders and puts their health at a high priority when they are in one of our long-term care facilities or living at home. When the NWT began to make decisions to protect our residents, they took into account our elders and our most vulnerable. They closed visiting to long-term care facilities and they limited travel to the small communities to decrease the risks. They found ways with technology to connect them with their families, and I want to thank the health authorities for that.

Mr. Speaker, one area that we seem not to be able to put a high priority on is having translators in our long-term care facilities. Some of our elders who have to live in long-term care, English is not their first language. In Inuvik, we have elders from all over the Beaufort-Delta and the Sahtu living there. We have amazing staff and programming there, but what they are missing is translators. Some of our residents have dementia, and family members often report their loved ones with dementia sometimes live in the past, even reverting back to their first languages. What I have been told by family members, as well, is that, when their family members are upset and confused, it is someone who can speak to them in their first language who can usually calm them. However, it's not just dementia patients; it's all patients who come into our hospitals. They should have the opportunity to have someone speak to them in their first language. We have 11 official languages in the Northwest Territories, and we need to give them that same level of respect as we do the French language, not because it's law, but because it's the right thing to do. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I'll have questions for the Minister of Health.