Healthcare
Healthcare is the second principle listed in the Bathurst Mandate, "people are responsible and accountable for their own well being" (Government of Nunavut 1999, p3), the Mandate also says that as one of the aims for 2020 is that "health and social care conditions will be at or above the Canadian average" and that in the in the short term there would be an effort to "recruit, train and retain health and social care workers at full capacity in all communities and facilities" (Government of Nunavut 1999, p3).
The simplest of these to assess is the last, looking the recruitment and training of healthcare workers, "of 161 nursing positions in Nunavut, 25% are vacant" and in line with this under recruitment "12 family doctors to serve a population of 30,000 over an area five times the size of France" (Légaré 2008, p353) as such the under recruitment of healthcare workers could be seen as a failure to obtain sufficient staff. Yet in 2013, Marchildon and Torgerson paint quite a different picture.
"The clearest strength in Nunavut is the current state of primary health care delivery. Regardless of size, each hamlet in the territory has a professionally staffed community health centre ... each community health centre delivers a suite of illness prevention, health promotion and public health services that is much more extensive than is typical in the south." (Marchildon and Torgerson 2013 p120), this shows that the government of Nunavut has made a concerted effort to tackle the issues that the territory has regarding it's healthcare issues.
But Marchildon and Torgerson also reiterate the fact that Nunavut does have a difficulty with keeping Healthcare staff, so the region remains in a state where continuity of care is difficult to provide with a high staff turnaround but what care is provided is fantastically pointed in it's effect and treatment is able to be given locally due to the community health centres being in place.