Absolutely, I don’t think any of us want to be paying for health care benefits for other than those who are residents here.

We do have a large transient population. We get about 150 applications a week for health care cards. So we are building in a process to make sure that we do monthly audits. There are audits being done of all these files on a daily basis and a monthly basis to look at any kind of pattern of out-of-jurisdiction claims, whether of services or medication for extended periods of time. Whether there’s inactive/activity on file for any length of time, we want to make sure that those residents are still living in the North.

Many of those transient populations use PO box numbers as their address, and this is why we want to put the physical address as being required information. Also, we’re looking at the possibility of requiring tax files to prove their residency in our 2009 renewal process. So that’s precisely the reason why we’re looking at these options.