Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The current public health order which restricts many of the NWT's activities was drafted one year ago. That's the order that prohibits having five people in your home. It prohibits singing. It prohibits indoor funerals. And, in fact, many of the things it prohibits in that order are no longer relevant, as we've since allowed exceptions and variances of that order that was drafted one year ago.
Mr. Speaker, when that order was drafted, the context and the justification for those impositions were that our health care system had this risk of being overwhelmed. There was talks of waves. There was talks of ICU beds, ventilators. And given we are now at a 60 percent vaccination target, much of that language has disappeared. And so I'm confused as to what the main goal we are trying to mitigate is.
And I would like to being with having the Minister explain to me is there still a risk, given our vaccination targets, given that I believe 100 percent of people over 80 are now vaccinated, of filling up our ICU beds in the NWT, or have we now moved beyond a risk of overwhelming the health care system. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.