I want to tell you that I feel sympathetic, and I want to do as much as I can for the children, just as the Member on the other side does.
I am responsible for the health care funding. All of our hospitals are going through a deficit, and they’ve had to make some choices. Where they have fiscal challenges, they have to put their first priority on insured services. Dental surgery is not an insured service. It’s not an insured service anywhere in Canada. For the aboriginal children NIHB covers a cost of that. There is a gap in the funding available. I think GNWT is willing to make some compromise on that, but there are the federal government, the dentistry industry and us being involved. I think we, all three parties, should work together to help the children who need that. I agree with the Member that we need to do something about the children who need these dental surgeries.