Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have written to the Metis organizations, the South Slave, the North Slave Metis Alliance and the Northwest Territories Federation. I have committed to a meeting in March to bring in the three Metis organizations to look at how the Metis health benefits are structured and how they are delivered. The initial program was done in the days when there was a Metis Nation, which no longer exists. I have written and copied the MLAs to that meeting.
We also are in the process of having the administration side of the payment of the benefits, once they have been determined, which has been done through Blue Cross up to this point, had been put out to tender. That process is still under way. It is just an administrative function that does not affect the eligibility or the policy of the Metis benefits that have been agreed to.
Those are the two particular areas, but the big one being that I have committed to the meeting with the Metis organizations, given the interest in some areas of, for example, the South Slave Metis have indicated very clearly that they are very interested in possibly delivering the Metis benefits to their own members. Given the concern and the fact that there are now three organizations, we are bringing them all to the table to see where we go from here. Thank you.