Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the points that are being made today. It is a priority of the health system to ensure that people have equitable access to safe and effective healthcare. I know that isn't the case all the time. But "all the time" is certainly what we are striving for.

It's important to say that we are facing an unprecedented crisis of staffing in our healthcare system. We have vacancies across the board. We have, coming out on Friday, our health human resources plan, which will discuss some of the medium and long-term initiatives that we plan to take to increase staffing. But in the short term, we are still very short staffed and I anticipate that that will continue through the summer.

This is being portrayed as a racial issue, and I understand why that is. I've done the Living Well Together training and so have 92 percent of my colleagues in the department and 61 percent in the health authorities. And there is a segment of Living Well Together that deals with the trauma that was caused by what were then called "Indian hospitals" where people went, usually for tuberculosis treatment, and often stayed over the very long term until they felt they were strangers to their communities and cultures.

So we have a division within the Department of Health and Social Services called community culture and innovation. It is staffed primarily by Indigenous people. And I feel that they have done good work over the last nine years to assist us in understanding systemic racism and developing materials that help us to become culturally safe in the interactions that we have.

I want to say that the health and social services authorities were accredited in 2019, following an extensive process of both internal and external review, and that the next review is scheduled for next year.

We provide surveys; they are online. I heard that people don't always use online. But we have recently closed the patient experience questionnaire, and I hope that we'll have some good learnings from that.

We recently put out our community counselling questionnaire, and I was very pleased to learn that 73 percent of the people surveyed who completed the survey were satisfied or very satisfied with the care they received.

So Mr. Speaker, we hear the concerns that are raised here. We will provide a response to the motion. Today, the Cabinet will be abstaining in this vote. Thank you.