Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I'll keep my comments relatively minimal but I just had a few things to say that I felt were -- did fall better under general comments than anywhere else. And so I just wanted to say a few things.

Aside from the need for some specific measurables, which I've been speaking to kind of over and over again when it comes to business plans and, you know, we covered with the Premier in the previous department, but I do want to see us looking and shifting towards outcome-oriented targets in any of the business plans, and I apply that to health also. But I will say that I think the business plan mostly looks good for this department and addresses what has been communicated to me as what needs to change, particularly the item speaking to evolving our primary care system. That was something that was kind of highlighted to me during the election. I campaigned on it. And I'm happy to see that the department is acknowledging the need for that and just, you know, acknowledging that primary care really is the sort of the backbone of the system. And effective primary care is how you get into prevention of so many chronic illnesses and things getting worse. And that access to health care, that's really what that means for me. So I'm happy to see it in the business plans.

The one omission that I don't see in the business plan, and one that I do feel I should speak to is, you know, some of the issues that are going at Stanton and NTHSSA with relation to management, human resources issue, lots of the stuff that we've been talking about in the House with nurses, agency nurses, and I just wanted to kind of speak to and give voice to years of discussion I've been having with nurses and frontline health care professionals about management issues identified, working conditions being untenable, people have either left the system or on the brink of leaving the system. You know, I've recently been meeting with and kind of connecting with nurses, and these concerns continue to be emphasized and re-emphasized. And, you know, the quote that is sticking with me and concerning me the most is this idea that the system is at a breaking point. People are telling us that they are at a breaking point and they need to see change.

And so I think there's a number of ways that can be brought about. I very much appreciate and support and champion the ideas that have been brought forward by AOC in their proposal. I won't speak to those here because they're in the proposal, and I think we need to be cognisant of time. But I do support them, emphasize them, hope that the Minister, you know, takes them into strong consideration.

But I'll leave that as my general comments. There's definitely more to talk about in the health, but I'll keep it brief. If the Minister or department wants to kind of respond to that, just that point on the -- on the (audio).