I did ask the Minister to answer that question and I’ll perhaps ask some questions to the Minister during formal session when I can get some answers from the Minister on where exactly the game plan is to integrate northern nursing grads into the health care system here in the Northwest Territories. I appreciated the deputy minister’s response, but I want to hear it from the Minister and I’ll ask her when I get a chance sometime this week, hopefully.
I wanted to also ask a couple of questions about the new working protocol with the Government of Alberta, how our patients that are requiring service in Alberta are going to be taken back to the Northwest Territories sooner than has been the practice in the past. They would stay there until they recovered, but now we’re going to be recovering more patients here in the Northwest Territories. I don’t see a corresponding increase in the budget for allowing that to happen. I also don’t see a corresponding increase in the budget anywhere to look at the increased cost that it’s going to take for our medevac patients into Alberta. There’s, at the very minimum, ambulance costs that are going to be involved from the international into the city. There may even be helicopter service required. That’s $2,500 a shot. I’m just wondering how the department puts this into the budget, so that I can understand where it’s at here.