I do appreciate the Minister is right that there was an exception made in one instance. However, it doesn’t really address the problem going forward and ongoing. I think that a more in-depth analysis needs to be done of the situation. For example, even if there is a neurologist now resident in Yellowknife, what is the caseload of that neurologist? How long will additional patients being added to the caseload have to wait in order to see them? Is there an extraordinary heavy caseload? Is it a light patient load whereby if we don’t include these other folks then they won’t be able to continue to practice here? We need a more in-depth analysis.
The other complicating factor is that quite often, even if they come here to Yellowknife and are assessed by the neurologist, some of the procedures and testing they need are done in Edmonton anyway. So I don’t think we can take just a really simple approach to this. I think we need to take a very critical look at it on a discipline-by-discipline basis when it comes to the specialists. Could the Minister agree the department could undertake that?