Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This will be for the Premier. With the weather becoming warmer and people are starting to want to move around now, people are wanting to go south. They're wanting to come back. They're not wanting to self-isolate. They're looking to maybe self-monitor instead.
I guess the question I have is: how is the Chief Public Health Officer and the COVID task force working with departments to identify gaps or gray areas affecting our businesses and residents, such as the ones I've mentioned; and how are they going to deal with people travelling south and coming back? What we're going to have now is we're going to have more people trying to circumvent the system. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member for Hay River South. Honourable Premier.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The chief health officer has the autonomy to be able to do the directions herself. She doesn't need to work with departments. She has been very, very nice to actually work with us as much as possible though.
Actually complying with the enforcement, that is our biggest fear. I am just going to put it out there. People have this misperception, and I need everyone to help me with this. Not only MLAs in this House; municipal governments have brought it up; Indigenous governments; we need everyone. People have this misperception, Mr. Speaker, that we're in a bubble, and we haven't had any active cases and we're fine. We're not fine. We are just waiting.
The only way that I can say is that all of us, as elected leaders, and that, I'm talking about municipal and Indigenous governments also, throughout this summer, this is going to be our biggest risk. I said that on the radio the other day. This may be the calm before the storm. My fear is that people are going to get too comfortable, too relaxed, and then, they will not be abiding the orders. I can't do this on my own. We all need to take a step on this. We will be doing more public campaigns right through the summer, and again, for residents, every time I get on the radio, I say that. Anybody that's seeing people breaking the orders, we need residents to call, protect NWT or 8-1-1 and inform us. We all are in this together, and we all have a role to play. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I think she answers about everything I've got down here for questions in that one statement, so I'm good. Thank you.
