Mr. Speaker, I don’t believe there was ever a compassionate policy. I am aware that there is a Medical Travel Policy. If you need a medical escort, you get one. The elders would have an escort. Somebody with a language issue will get an escort. Mr. Speaker, the Member is asking me to do a compassionate analysis. Maybe the Member could tell me how do we decide what is more dire: a family who needs to be near a child who has had a transplant, a 90-year-old elder from Fort McPherson who’s dying of cancer who we don’t know how long it will take, somebody who’s had a brain… I’m just thinking of this thing. Somebody who needs to be in long-term care for three to six months in southern jurisdictions and I get asked for the whole entire community to come and stay with the family. Maybe the Member could tell me what is the indicator we use to do what is compassionate. We have people in small communities who need to be near a doctor. In Inuvik we have somebody from Fort McPherson. We have somebody from Ulukhaktok who needs to be in Inuvik or in Yellowknife. They need housing and they need their families to come in.

Mr. Speaker, this is not about cost. In health care when somebody needs medical care, they get their care. When they need an escort, they get an escort. And under the rule, we allow one person. Thank you.