Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise to give points related to my motion, the reasons for it.

I came to the 19th Assembly with the intent on improving health care in the small communities and especially in my community where I went out campaigning and I was hearing all the stories regarding health care. There were many instances and complaints, lack of compassion, and the seriousness of illnesses. Many patients, they became patients after numerous visits to the health centre for the same ailment. That was about three, four, five times, and each time they were sent home with a Tylenol.

This led to medivacs after about the third, fourth, or fifth visit, in which case the patient was seriously ill and in great danger for their lives.

There are instances where patients did end up losing their life. Many were due to misdiagnosis of their ailment or a total disregard of their problem. And they're also being sent home without any follow-up whatsoever.

I realize that small community health centres are not equipped with the appropriate medical devices to properly diagnose an unknown ailment. This is an increasing dilemma, and residents have grave concerns of this situation.

I have made several statements of this situation over the course of this Assembly since I've been here. And I believe that it's not a new issue. I believe that it's been brought up many times in previous Assemblies.

And after the statements and all these complaints and everything, there's still no actions nor any intent to action to address these concerns. There was more of the “fill in a complaint form” is all, you know, people are receiving.

I just want to note that we as MLAs are the voice of the people. And when we come into this House, we bring forth all those concerns. We shouldn't have to look for consent forms. These are real lived experiences. I live in a small community. I experienced all this. I bring it to the floor or the House. Something should be done about it. That's what we expect from this side of the House. We need someone to listen to us, to help us.

And there are also several news stories. There was the stories of the ladies in Fort Res that brought up concerns. You know, there's lots of concerns. And there was also the recent one from the Deline elder, and we know what happened there. It was newsworthy. So it is a serious concern.

You know, we expect, you know, from all these concerns not to fight us and make us think that it's not real. We would expect to get respect from Ministers to say okay, hey, I will come into your community and I will meet with your leadership; I will listen. Because there are many complaints. You know, I've had to deal with many. I have made statements galore on these issues, and I've finally figured well, I better put a motion in and see what happens there.

I'm hoping for concrete action from the department by way of this motion. And that's all I have for now, Mr. Speaker. Mahsi.