Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the Minister of Health and Social Services today. We over the years have asked many times for the Department of Health to review supplementary health benefits to see if something could be done for those folks that are working but do not receive coverage or benefits from any other source. I’m referring to mostly families who work for the private sector and don’t have employee sponsored insurance programs and we thought that was a good thing.

The Supplementary Health Benefits Program was reviewed. Little did we know that inadvertently there would be this means testing which would affect so many of the seniors in the Northwest Territories. We did not know that would be part of the review and that the outcome would be this.

I would like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services, what was -- for the benefit of the people of the North who may not understand why -- the motive for means testing supplementary health benefits for seniors in the Northwest Territories over the age of 60 years?