Thank you, Madam Chair.
This has been a very interesting report for me. Back in the early eighties I was one of those nurses working in one of these remote or isolated communities, and I can recall thinking I was ordering a dose of something and I actually ordered a case of saline solution. They are probably still using that saline solution to this day.
I reflect on this whole incident, and as a nurse, to overestimate...first of all, to look at the pain it caused my community and how it escalated into something from a mis-estimation as a nurse working in a community. In actual fact, at that time I was one of the first band-employed nurses, and it would not otherwise have escalated because I was directly responsible to the community I worked for; it would have stayed at that level.
So what has happened more recently is really unfortunate. I think what we need to do is to recognize it for what it is, and I think the report is very clear on that. I think it's time for us to move on. Perhaps sometimes out of difficult circumstances we can learn lessons, as you've articulated, and we can just move on. Clearly it is time to do that.
We've talked a lot about Manitoba, and certainly that's an area we are concerned about in terms of how things are going. But I would also be very curious to hear from Dr. Gully about what's happening across the country—and again, it's only been a month.