Thank you, Madam Chair. I am very familiar with this program, Madam Chair, as I do have a handicapped facility in my riding of Rankin Inlet, where we do look after northern kids who do have severe handicaps, et cetera. So I sympathize and empathize with my colleague.
There is definitely a desire on the part of this government and certainly the Minister responsible, to repatriate our northern people so they are close to their families and close to their friends and relatives, and get the kind of northern care that is due them. There is a certain level of professional skill required, because this is a very sensitive area we are dealing with, particularly young children in this situation. I know that we have been working hard to ensure again based on my own personal experience in my riding, adequate expertise at the community level.
When you put it in financial terms, I hope I will say this properly. It is a lot of money, and certainly there is clearly a need if the north does not have some of the additional services you can get in southern Canada, for the handicapped people and children. We need to examine how we can do that. I will undertake to discuss the matter with Mr. Ng and work with him to look at what is happening in relationship to repatriation and look with him as to what is required over and above some of the care that is currently there, and see if in fact there is a possibility to embellish this program. But again, I guess, it would have to be done, with all due respect, to my colleague, within the fiscal framework of the government. But certainly it is an area of concern, and it is an area that I believe the Minister, in my discussions with him, is prepared to address. Thank you.