Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yes, I am aware of the issue. Some of the reasons are that, naturally, some of them had planned on leaving the territories to resume practices in other jurisdictions. A secondary reason is there have been some changes proposed in some of the other jurisdictions in Canada in respect to changing some of the health billing number systems that they have to restrict non-residing physicians from accessing billing numbers.

Some of the physicians that operate in the Northwest Territories are concerned that they may not have an opportunity to receive or to keep their billing numbers that they have in their home jurisdictions. As a result of that, they are contemplating moving back to their home provinces, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.