Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services. We spent a lot of time in this Chamber talking about the devolution of powers and authorities to the territorial government and I remember that it wasn't so many years ago that the Department of Health was devolved from the federal government to the territorial government. Over the years, many other departments and many other responsibilities have come from the federal government to the territorial government.

Mr. Speaker, recently, I had occasion to find out that the deficit from the NIHB, the non-insured health benefit, the deficit from that program, which we deliver on behalf of the federal government, continues to grow and be a burden to this government as we try to administer it and manage it on behalf of Inuit and status First Nations people. I'd like to ask Minister Miltenberger what the current status is of that deficit and what his department is doing to address this through negotiations with the federal government. Thank you.