Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to congratulate all the elected councillors and mayors that just recently had their elections. I take my hat off to the people who put their names forward to serve their people.
The Premier talked about the year now that we’ve been elected, and we are elected by our people to fight for our people when we come to the capital in Yellowknife here to look at the conditions that we live in in our communities. We know the conditions because we come from these small communities.
When we come into a larger centre, we start to see some of the equalities that happen. We even look at our school system, where it took almost nine years to have the Government of the Northwest Territories put proper washroom facilities in a school in Colville Lake. We wonder and I wonder why it took so long, nine years, to even have washroom facilities in the health centre in Colville Lake. When we come down here, we look at other facilities where they take it for granted.
Our people ask us to come forward and fight for them, to have the same type of facilities that the other institutions have around the Northwest Territories. When we get down here, we get to see how the system works and sometimes it’s very frustrating. Sometimes it’s okay because we win some and we lose some. The system sometimes works not for the people but for the system itself, and that’s frustrating.
One of the huge costs of this government is our health care. The majority of our budget is spent on health care. On the weekend I was reading the Globe and Mail. We have a dangerous infection, a superbug, that’s continuing to rise in the Northwest Territories. It’s MRSA and this is a very dangerous infectious disease that we have here. It’s on the rise and we need to start tracking the superbug. One of the contributing factors of this superbug is the overcrowding of housing.
I have a lot of issues I want to talk about. I don’t have the time right now so I would just like to say, stay tuned.
Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The honourable Member for Weledeh, Mr. Bromley.
