Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are up to date on collecting money and receivables from Nunavut for the current year. As we move forward we have a clear agreement with Nunavut government as to how much and what we charge the Nunavut government for the services we provide. We’ve basically agreed to follow the same billing practices as the rest of the jurisdictions. There is a uniform standard on how hospital and doctor services are to be charged between jurisdictions.

The dispute had been that for a number of years after division there was not a written document between Nunavut and NWT about what we were going to charge. The problem wasn’t so much on the doctor and hospital services, as something like lab tests where the Nunavut government thought that we would charge them a fee. For example, if you were to do a blood test for them, they thought we would charge them for each sample; whereas we thought we should charge them for each test, because you could have one sample from a person but you may have seven different tests. That sort of thing.

I can advise you that since I have learned about this issue in coming into the office, the officials in the department, as well as the management of Stanton, have worked diligently and we feel we have a good basis as we go forward.

We do have outstanding receivables from Nunavut from many previous years that we want to kind of move on from.