Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, the department has been working on cultural safety initiatives since the 2013-2014 fiscal year, and what we have focused on, to define what we're talking about with cultural safety, is initiatives that are designed to address inequities experienced by Indigenous residents when accessing our health services, to improve early childhood development indicators, enable seniors to age in place, and increase the number of mental health and addiction program supports. What we want is: we recognize that, because of historic factors, Indigenous people may not be accessing the healthcare system as much as they need to. The Mental Wellness and Addictions Recovery plan addresses this issue, and the specific Caring for Our People Action Plan sets out how we're going to accomplish cultural safety within our healthcare system.

There were a number of pilot activities that the department carried out to try and understand what worked best. They did 13 of these, and they have now finished with their pilot phase and are developing a framework on cultural competency which will be introduced in the Legislative Assembly once it has been endorsed by the NTHSSA leadership council. This is really, in my opinion, well on its way to being embedded in the everyday work of the department that people take this training and they learn about the operating environment from a cultural point of view. What we are looking for as a result of this is that more staff are trained in cultural competency and that patients express greater satisfaction with the services that they have received. When those numbers start to go up, we'll know that we have started to meet our targets in this area. Thank you.