Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to the Member for letting me address this issue. So across Canada, health care services are strained. The North is no different. We hear all the time in this House, I hear from my own constituents, there's issues in the health care system. That's not news. That's nothing new. That's an acknowledgement that I want to make clear that I am making today.

One of the things we're doing to address these issues is the establishment of the health care system sustainability unit. Now, this is a unit that is positioned within my Department of the Executive and Indigenous Affairs, so separate from the health care system, that is going to examine the health care system, look at what we are offering and how we're offering it, make a determination of what are the core services that we need to offer, so that we're in line and we can work towards this Assembly's priority of offering -- or ensuring residents have access to basic health care.

So this is not a unit to look at, okay, what's core and what can we get rid of. It's to look at what are the core services and how are we offering them and how can we ensure we're offering them in the best possible way. There could be instances where we are working at cross purposes in the system. When you have a system that is so large that it has so many employees that involves so many agreements with the Government of Canada, things can get missed. And we haven't had an opportunity to really focus on the system and really analyze it and see what we're doing. There have been attempts in the past. They've originated from within the system. And sometimes they just get absorbed into the daily work of the system. So this is to really look at what we're doing, how we're doing it, and how we can do it better. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.