Thank you, Mr. Chair. How it works is employees who choose to participate in the Public Service Health Care Plan do have extended health benefits as well as a medical travel benefit. It’s referred to in the plan as air ambulance.
Employees who are covered can get back the cost of air ambulance if they incur it.
We did run into a problem recently where the Public Service Health Care Plan changed their rules so that, rather than allowing us to be in a situation where we could have employees assign the benefit directly back to us, we were in a situation where employees would have to incur their medevac costs initially up front and then have to claim back.
We had fairly extensive discussions with Sun Life of Canada. We reached an agreement in January so in situations where employees who are covered and are medevaced can assign that benefit directly to the Department of Human Resources. So we are recouping those costs now. They’ve agreed as well for the last year that anywhere we have the employees sign off the assignment of benefits, we can recoup those ones as well. So going forward, as long as the employees are covered, we can get that back.