Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I do think the public administrator has his work cut out for him in terms of sorting through the budgets if there's a lot of -- I'm sure there's way more things in there but, you know, that have certainly been done but unfunded, and there's sort of money shifting around. Without even changing service levels or what we're doing, there's already lots of shifting around of numbers in these budgets.

Okay. The only other sort of main topic I wanted to ask about, in terms of community clinics and health centres, can the Minister tell us how many communities do we have in the territory that doesn't even have a community health centre at all? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Nine, we have nine health cabins in the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is the department -- especially given that we're focusing on primary care and there's attempts at primary care reform, is the department looking at how we can try to put at least a community health nurse in every single community in the territory? Is that a goal that we have; is that something we're looking at? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. What I can do right now is I will -- what I can say right now is is that we are doing a review of our model of care throughout our community health centres, and I've also asked them to look at how we are supporting those communities, those health cabin communities in some of those small communities and then ensuring that they're getting -- they're getting some care. But at this time right now, that -- during that review, you know, one of the things that I've always said in this House is that we need to make sure that our most vulnerable people, and especially in our small communities -- and that does include those communities that have health cabins and how we're supporting them. At this time, I won't commit to what kind of staffing will go into any of those positions because that would be a bigger conversation. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do look forward to that bigger conversation. I think it's quite urgent. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from the Deh Cho.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Of those nine health cabins that you talked about -- that the Minister talked about, is one of them in Kakisa? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Yes, that's correct.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from the Deh Cho.

Is there one in Enterprise? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

I don't know if we consider it -- it's a satellite because their proximity to Hay River so if you want to consider it a -- but I don't -- the services we currently have, that would be considered one.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Deh Cho Member.

I don't know, but I think I asked you this -- I think I asked the Minister. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think I asked the Minister about this before, but members from Kakisa have to travel out to either Fort Providence or Hay River, and Enterprise is probably to Hay River, because they don't have medical services in their little communities.

I guess I'm trying to figure out is how can they be compensated or if they have some kind of a health issue and they go to Hay River or Providence, is medical travel going to cover their cost to travel to the health centre in Fort Providence? Like, say, somebody got really sick in Kakisa and they had to drive to either Hay River or Fort Providence because they have no services in Kakisa, the person that administers -- I don't know, maybe it's just Tylenol, in Kakisa -- is not able to diagnose them him or anything or check them out or anything or -- so they make the decision to leave the community, does the person that takes care of the health cabin approve their travel to Hay River or to Fort Providence? Thank you.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we do have community health workers in the health cabins, and they have some minimal training to be able to do the minimal assessment - temperature, blood pressure, and then they will consult with -- and I believe Kakisa is through Fort Providence. And so if there is -- and if they believe that they get approval and they need to travel or they either wait until the nurse travels to Kakisa, and if they need to travel sooner than if they get approval, then if they have to drive they can claim their kilometers or, you know, like, through that process. I can get more detail -- and I think I've asked -- I think -- that's the thing is, I've asked there to be more of a clear process from the department to be able to work with NTHSSA on that process so that way we can have -- so, you know, when people are coming to MLAs or when they look for that information, that it's clearly -- the process is clear, because one time -- when people travel on their own, then -- without being approved to travel, then they don't get their travel approved, like, through medical travel. So -- and that does come up sometimes when -- especially from people from the small communities around Yellowknife and they come and they make their way here without any approval from the health centres, and then they want to stay at the boarding home and then it's not allowed because that's a medical travel boarding home. So there is -- so we need to clarify. And I have that on -- to be done.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Member from Deh Cho.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to the Minister for that. It's very important for people in the -- you know, to have some kind of assurance or to know for sure that this is what they can do and the -- I don't know if it's called CHR, the person that provides the care in the health cabins, to know this information so they could pass it on to their community residents so everybody's aware. You know, more information is better than nothing, so if can you clarify that and get that organized for them, that would be really good. Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's more of a comment than a question. And I have nothing further. Thank you.