Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Department of Health and Social Services are still supportive of midwifery services. It is a mandate item of the Government of the Northwest Territories. The report was completed with 16 recommendations. We agree with all 16 recommendations. We are now moving forward with the program design. We're moving forward on the recommendations that were made. We're looking to develop a territorial midwifery program that meets the needs of residents throughout the Northwest Territories. This will include building...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this is exactly what we're doing. We're doing the work so we can have a finite or concrete number that we can bring to the Assembly to have a discussion on to see if there's a desire of this Assembly to move on this initiative. We can't really have that discussion until we get the price. We will have that information during the life of this government so that we can have that informative discussion.

I will also note that, I mean, currently we're topping up the Hay River pension by about $1 million a year. We've been doing that for a very long time. I understand...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, Mr. Chair, it's on page 187, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, but I will commit to keeping the chair of the committee informed. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we don't have a quality assurance division in the department, and I suppose I will need the Member to remind me. I remember talking about quality assurance in the Territorial Health and Social Services Authority who is there at the frontline level to take input from residents who have concerns so that they can explore those and make improvements. I am certainly open to have the Member remind me if that is otherwise, but it has always been clear in my mind that we had been talking about the Territorial Healthy Authority.

Now, with that in mind, we do have...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, this isn't the correct area. The correct area, I think it falls kind of in two different areas, and that's community health and nursing services, I think is the appropriate title. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the primary reduction in that area is the $900,000 that we expect through the efficiencies of a single physician system in the Northwest Territories.

We are providing additional resources by way of human resources to assist that staff person when they are away on training and other things so that we don't fall behind further. The number of active files has decreased over the years. We are making improvements. The assessments are done by different individuals, psychiatrists and psychologists who we have contracted with. That has really helped us bring down the number. Those relationships will continue.

We will continue to bring our case file down. We will continue to provide the services. We are building the business case. We are going to put...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. To the Member's point, with respect to the human resource unit, he is both right and wrong in his view. He's right, not all the services being offered by that unit are available to Hay River because of the fact that they're outside the public service, but they are gaining some benefits. We're looking at right now doing a transition from the human resource unit that's in the department, recognizing that it's really a front-line provider that is providing support to the authority. We're transitioning them into the authority. Once they become part of the authority, they'll...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, Mr. Chair.