Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, dealing with what would be termed a normal birth; in Fort Smith, for example, there are currently a number of births being done in the community just with midwives, with some assistance and back-up where required from the health system. What we are moving towards is legislation for midwives, protocols with the doctors and all the other caregivers, the nurses, so it is very clear that midwives are part of the team that provides the service. So we're working our way through that. We have a project in the works through the primary health care transition fund, to try to get that up and running. We hope to have legislation ready for introduction in this House for midwives. They've been doing extensive work over the last year or so, working on the protocols to integrate midwives into the operation with nurses and doctors. This would be, for the most part, for normal births.
If, in fact, the intention was to move to a Yellowknife model where they deal with all the other births, then it is a much more expensive proposition, as the Member indicated, requiring an anesthesiologist and obstetricians and surgeons and such. At this point, that is not the plan when it comes to birthing services outside of Yellowknife. We want to try to provide a fully staffed complement here in Yellowknife, and then work with the communities to develop birthing services, a level for the more normal births. Thank you.