Thank you. The Minister has clearly said this is not about cost savings and the numbers that she had put forward with an escalation value on them, and yet why are we mixing this up with core health services? I get the impression that Members on this side of the House are trying to lobby Members on this side, somehow leading to believe that there’s some question between our ability to deliver core health services to Colville Lake or any of these other communities where, you know, they need nurses and front-line workers, are trying to connect this to the supplementary health benefits. It is absolutely a red herring.
This government, you want to talk about priorities, this government should make core health in those communities a priority, quite irrelevant from what’s happening with supplementary health benefits, and
if they don’t, they need to go back and look at some of the things they’ve got on the books that they think are a priority, because I think some of them are unnecessary expenditures. Let me say it that way to be kind and polite.
Mr. Speaker, why is the Minister, let me ask her, why is the Minister trying to tie the delivery of core health services in our communities to this issue of supplementary health, given those numbers that she just read out to me?