Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister for Health and Social Services. As other Members have said today and as the general public may be aware, recently the Minister published the policy titled Supplementary Health Benefits Policy, dated September of 2007. It’s become crystal clear that the implementation of any changes to the Extended Health Benefits Program as the Minister is proposing can only be done through means testing,

something which was not crystal clear before. I feel the Minister has led us down, and the public down, the garden path for about a year and a half. She has studiously avoided telling us that the motion that was passed a year ago or so would have no effect, there would be no blank slate, no adequate consideration of alternatives. So I’d like to ask the Minister why did she not communicate the content or the intent of this policy to the Standing Committee on Social Programs and to the general public last February or March when the motion was debated. Thank you.