Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have approximate numbers. For a person to stay in a hospital, it is between $1,000 and $1,200 per day. If they are in a long-term care facility, it is approximately $300 per day. That is the difference.

Certainly there are a number of contributing factors that would come to play in assessing whether a person needed to be in an active care hospital, depending on the type of illness they have, the level of pain that needs to be managed, whether they have access to long-term care facilities in their region or their community. When you consider other options, whether or not they have family support, things like that.

Each case is individual, but certainly as a department and as a service provider, we need to ensure that there are various options and the best solutions available to the northern residents.