Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the 1990-91 fiscal year the contract physician at the Fort Simpson hospital saw 2220 patients, including one or two life-threatening emergencies, per month. Can the Minister assure the House that regardless of what the department is going to do, according to this Beatty report recommendation, he will not take any steps to eliminate the funding arrangements that allow us to have a medical doctor available in Fort Simpson? Mahsi.

Appendix 11, Strength at Two Levels report, recommends that the Fort Simpson hospital should be transformed into a modern health centre with no elective birthing, and long-term care being moved to the community through home care and other non-institutional community health care. My question is, what is the Minister's definition of a "modern health centre"?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Health. Over the past several weeks I have asked the Minister of Health about the Fort Simpson hospital. They are going through the Strength at Two Levels report. I have to make some corrections in that. We do not have a regional board of health for the Mackenzie as indicated in the Beatty report. As well, we have only one contract position in the Fort Simpson hospital, rather than two as stated in that report. There are some mistakes in the report, and recognizing that this Strength at Two Levels report's strategic division of the Department of Health is based on information that is incorrect, how can the Minister have confidence in the recommendations in it, especially regarding the Fort Simpson hospital? Mahsi.

When I got to the Redknife Highway maintenance camp, I could not continue because they had just cooked some moose ribs over the fire. I could not say, "No," because I had been eating restaurant food here all week, so it was a good treat for me.

What I found out was that they closed the road to Trout Lake. Apparently they had four days of good weather in the plus eight and plus nine area, and one day at plus 15 degrees Celsius. What happened is that the winter road had thawed out and four tanker fuel trucks were stuck on the road into Trout Lake. It was inconvenient for the people of Trout Lake to get in and out of the community I know the people that work on the highways are helping to try to open the road. They are working over the weekend, and I want to mention that there are people that work hard and try to do their job right. I want them to be recognized. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to tell people here that I drove back to Fort Simpson over the weekend. I thought the highway was fairly good all the way to Simpson, and I made good time. I was lucky I did not encounter any highway patrol, like my colleague here, so I made very good time.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Personnel regarding a statement he made yesterday on selling staff houses to people who occupy them. He gave an answer to my question yesterday in which he said there would be a policy in place by June. By that I wonder if he meant that the people in the small communities, for example Fort Simpson, would be able to start buying their homes, if they want to, by June. Mahsi.

I do not have a petition, but I would like to get unanimous consent to return to oral questions.

Will the Minister provide me with the information on the national forest strategy? Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the Minister responsible for Renewable Resources, and it is in relation to the Government Leader's statement today where the Minister will be attending a national forest congress to ratify our national forest strategy. Mr. Speaker, the constituency I represent, I am told, has 60 per cent of the forests in the Northwest Territories, and I have always been concerned about it. As you know, the Liard/Nahanni Valley resource management -- there is an interim committee being set up to mutually look at the land and try to shape what happens on the land, and try to maybe eventually involve an input of community members from that area, so there is a great concern for the valley. I want to know what this national forest congress is and what this national forest strategy is, because I would like to know if it is going to have an effect on the forests in the area I represent. Mahsi.