Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services. In March 2009, this side of the House passed a motion unanimously for you to go back and review the changes or, rather, go back to the drawing board on the changes that you are proposing on supplementary health at that time. In discussions following that, the Minister said that she would go back to the drawing board, that she would develop a stakeholders group and she would listen to them for options and alternatives and do some research around that.
Since that time it has become clear that she had been working off a policy that was approved by Cabinet on September 30, 2007, which indicates that there is only one option. It is an income test model. Given that, at the time, there was a significant amount of public outcry about what was being proposed by the Minister. The motion was clear: go back to the drawing board. I saw letters; I heard people on the streets; there were rallies out there. The Minister couldn’t have missed all that. Given that she must have heard all that and given that, in the policy itself, under Section 5, paragraphs 2(b)4, there is actually a clause that says that the Minister may recommend revision to this policy to the Executive Council. Given that all that information was out there and all that concern exists, can the Minister tell me when she went back to Cabinet seeking possible revisions of the policy which would allow her to actually consider other options and alternatives rather than just relying on the income test model that we are now faced with today?