We had our meetings here as a committee and we had the NWT Seniors’ Society come and meet with us one fine, early morning and talked about the rental issue with the seniors and the Housing Corporation. I want to ask the Minister if the NWT Seniors’ Society asked for a meeting with the Minister and staff about this new implementation, especially the delay. Would the Minister be able to entertain having a meeting with them?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize my sister-in-law Doris Camsell and, of course, Ms. Jacobson Masuzumi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. It is my hope that our region and other regions will be treated fairly and acknowledged once and for all that our currency has been stretched to the limit in all of our communities. Please, we need help from this government.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To live in the North it is very costly. We all know how much it is costing us to live in our small communities, even in Yellowknife. When we come to Yellowknife or when we travel to Edmonton, we do the necessary things. We have to shop. We do this to seize the opportunity to bring back cheap groceries, clothing or material. A lot of our people are shocked to see how much things cost in Yellowknife. I am definitely in awe to see the prices in Edmonton. It has been reported by our government that to live reasonably well in Sachs Harbour, you would have to make about $95...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I look forward to the Minister’s information. Just on the principle again of the nurse practitioners, and the Minister can correct me if this is the place where I need to continue digging into this or just ask about it later on in the business plan, but I am asking the Minister on the principle in the policy of these active positions, if they’re working closely with the Sahtu Health Board or the Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority, or any other authorities we have on these valuable positions and people that we have hired. Is there a policy in health that...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Minister is challenged with many, many challenges. Of course, our system is bulging at the seams with all the needs that we want in the communities that we face. As my colleague talked about Tsiigehtchic, it’s no different than talking about Colville Lake. It’s the same situation. It’s a different town, different time, and situations like that. The Health department is doing its best to get into the community from time to time and be there longer than a couple hours or a couple days. Thank God we have some pretty dedicated people that just need to deal with the...

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted

I’ll get to that area when we talk about the modernization of this act. I want to definitely see the nurse practitioners in there and how we can continue to support them in their efforts and make it easier for us, and I hope we can have some fruitful discussion when we get to that area. I’m just lending my support to those professions.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to ask the Minister, and maybe it might be in another section of the business plans, on the principle of the Nurse Practitioner Program. I’m not too sure if it’s in here or fits in this section or later on on these positions that are within the department of within the health board, so we have some graduates this year.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The tours that I’ve been having in the Sahtu region – and I know this came up in the 16th also – this issue here is with the district office in the Sahtu. One of the questions that came up in our communities was the value of having the district office in the Sahtu situated in Norman Wells.

I know the communities talked about moving some of the techies to the communities because the issue came that when the technician, it might improve. Some of the technical staff members come into the communities and they only stay the limited period of time and seem to watch the clock...