Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I should also, for the record, state that I have contacted and written Minister Clement on this issue, raising it as well when we were at our federal/provincial/territorial Health Ministers. I used that opportunity to raise it as well; finding that other jurisdictions that deal with aboriginal peoples in the delivery of health care in their northern regions are in the same boat, very frustrated with that. This debt goes as far back as 1999, the outstanding amounts of what we've put in, what the claim was that we sent in and what they agreed to paying. For example, in '99, it was as small as $6 million or 6.6. Then a number of years it was around three and a half, four million dollars. Lately and since '03-04 we've hit double digits in the $12 million, 14, 15, as high as 5-6.
Floyd Roland on Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 15th, 2007
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