Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My questions this afternoon are for Mr. Miltenberger, the Minister of Health and Social Services. It regards the services that northerners can expect when they have to go outside the Northwest Territories for medical or clinical treatment.
Mr. Speaker, most of our outside requirement is handled at the Capital Health region, or the network of hospitals and clinics in the Edmonton area, and, from my information, Mr. Speaker, very capably so over the years. But when a patient has a procedure that is not available through that Capital Health region contract, there may be, or have been, some issues drawn to my attention about whether or not NWT patients are on some kind of priority, or lack of priority, with other patients. When a northerner requires care in a facility outside the Capital Health region, what are the protocols, or the priorities, that a northern patient can expect in relation to other patients from the outside province? Thank you.