Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank all of my colleagues for speaking to this motion and bringing it forward. I just also would like to rise in support. I think it is clear that many in our small communities don't have trust in our current healthcare system. And I think we always have to keep that top of mind.

I'm well aware that in many ways Health is by far our largest budget, and it is going through a deficit reduction exercise right now and I fear, when we look at models that we've seen in other jurisdictions, rural healthcare is always a potential target from that deficit reduction. Closing health centres has happened in many areas across other jurisdictions, and I think this motion is just a reminder to Health that we have to adequately resource to make sure that our health system is equitable, and that's going to take some hard conversations about other budget priorities. But our small community healthcare could not be at the expense. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.