Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have an oral question, and it’ll be for the Minister of Health and Social Services. It will be on the topic of medical travel.

I had a constituent contact me yesterday, and interestingly enough, I had another constituent contact me again this morning regarding almost an identical medical travel problem. Mr. Speaker, that is about when you get a non-medical escort approved through the doctors’ process. Medical Travel in one of the cases has refused to allow that person, even with a doctor’s note, to bring a non-medical travel escort south. In the second case the department doesn’t seem to want to pick up the cost other than the plane ticket of the person travelling on that non-medical travel escort path.

I just want to seek some clarity from the Minister of Health and Social Services. First, if a doctor puts into writing the need to have a non-medical escort travel with someone to the South, do we pick up that cost? Furthermore, do we pick up the costs associated with their hotel room and any other reasonable and responsible costs involved in that process?