Thank you, Madam Chair. I thank the Minister for that. Oh, it's so true about aging in place. People, you know, back home, we take care of our elders and we have big issues with that because, you know, the long-term care facility in Inuvik, we send some of our elders from Ulukhaktok and Paulatuk and Tuk, you know, that we just leave them there, and you can't take them home. The only time you visit from the smaller communities is, like, Sachs, Paulatuk, and Ulu. That's over a thousand dollars. That's almost $2,000 to go visit your family with the prices these days. I think what we should be doing is the programming that we do have with family care and that and once that program's successful, we should be working at that in the smaller communities across the territory, not only, you know, in the delta but right across the territory because you know as well as I do that we really honour our elders, and we want to take care of them. But it's just sometimes it's the same family members that are doing it all the time, and they're burnt out and tired. And then, you know, hopefully you can get respite care, put them in care in Inuvik or something for a week or something so they could rest up. But we really should be looking at a long-term fix for this. And it's more of a comment but I'm thankful for what you've done in this section. Thank you, Madam Minister. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Jackie Jacobson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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