Thank you, Madam Chair. I will have the deputy minister respond to that.

We are hoping to proceed with every community that wishes to have a wellness plan. We will work with every community that wishes to have a wellness plan.

Having said that, we have to realize that developing a wellness plan in a city the size of Yellowknife would be a difficult task. It may be portions of the city. We need to do a lot of work, a lot of planning in order to come up with a wellness plan for the city of Yellowknife. Of course, in the smaller communities it would be a lot easier. Most organizations in small communities encompass the entire community, whereas in Yellowknife various...

There’s no target at this time. We don’t know. We know that a couple of authorities have used nurse practitioners and are very interested in building that flexibility into their funding, but we don’t have a target percent at this time.

We have asked the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority to work with the community through what we refer to as a Primary Care Team. Included in that is the home care workers, and to re-evaluate the needs in both of those communities of both Tsiigehtchic and McPherson to see if they can provide home care to the residents that need home care. I think if we’re successful in building in this elders daycare, it will be the home support workers that will be working with the adults in Fort McPherson. I think the authority would have to increase the amount of home support workers that...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m pleased to recognize Louise Bradley, president and CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; Geoff Couldrey, executive vice-president of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; Michelle McLean, vice-president of public affairs of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; and Dana Heide, associate deputy minister of Health and Social Services.

My understanding is that we are fairly average with that. There are a couple of jurisdictions across the country that have agreed to increase the percentage of their budget towards prevention and promotion and we are trying to do the same as well.

We plan on expanding some of the work in wellness. One of the things we are hoping to do is work with community organizations or Aboriginal governments within the communities to help us develop these plans, so it would not be just one individual that is developing all of the plans, but we’ll try to work with the Aboriginal groups, Tlicho Government, as an example, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and so on. We’re going to be engaging the groups when we develop the wellness plans across the territory.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the growing seniors population, it’s a demographic that is happening right across the country. We recognize that. That is a fast growing population. In order for us to maintain the funding to support the fast growing population, we do need to put in programs, rehab programs, more funding towards long-term care and putting some good, solid assisted living programs in place to keep people in their homes and so on.

The deficits of the health and social services authorities across the region had indicated earlier that our intention is to look at that by trying to do some...

Yes, I will commit to that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There were a lot of comments here. I’m going to try to run through them without trying to repeat as much as possible. Also to try to group some of the response as best I can.

On the eHealth, we too agree that the electronic health is the way to go. Right now we have digital imaging and the DI/PACS are available in 22 communities across the North. This includes both the Stanton Hospital in Yellowknife, Inuvik Regional Hospital and then the following 20 communities: Hay River, Fort Smith, Behchoko, Simpson, Deline, Norman Wells, Tulita, Good Hope, Fort Resolution, Fort...