Mr. Chairman, the Government
of Canada under supervision of DIAND department is responsible for funding for insured hospital and doctors’ services to our Inuit and Indian peoples of the Territories.
That’s in line with the practice before the health programming and service delivering was transferred to GNWT in 1988. At that time there was an agreement in place that put a 2 per cent cap on the funding they would provide. How we would do it is that they would provide the services to our aboriginal peoples and then we bill DIAND for those programs. The stats we have available is that since 1999 the expenditure has been a lot larger than 2 per cent, obviously, and the accumulated deficit there is about $95 million.