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we’re on, 6-12 under the Hospital Care and Medical Care for Indians and Inuit. Those are the expenditures we are incurring. Then we submit our reimbursements. We will be submitting last year’s reimbursement this year.
We have been going back and forth in the House about some of the actions and interactions the Premier has had with the DIAND Minister and the Prime Minister in his previous role as Minister of Health and Social Services. There are two federal departments involved in this issue. The major one is the DIAND Minister and the Prime Minister, obviously, and then on the side is the federal Minister of Health, Tony Clement.
I think we need to renegotiate, and the Member may appreciate that in order to negotiate you need two parties to come to the table. We’re asking the federal government to come to the table and negotiate a better term and to remove that cap, but I believe the federal government feels that some of these fundings are being provided through other means — their transfer payments and such. We will continue to pursue this issue and see if we can renegotiate and raise the cap.