I need the Member to tell me how we determine the working poor if we don’t talk about income. Who are they? It’s everybody who’s not covered, right? So if we’re going to cover working poor without determining income, that means we are covering everybody. Everybody. I agree that might be something that everybody wants to do, some people might want to do. But we’re no longer then talking about working poor. We’re talking about having universal supplementary health benefits for everybody who lives in the Northwest Territories. That is a good public policy debate to have. We don’t have working poor defined anymore because without talking about income and need, who are they?

The Joint Working Group review have asked us to look at encouraging people to get third-party insurance, NHIB parity, lots of different things that we could look at within the existing framework. With all due respect, we need to have an honest, frank discussion about what we’re talking about. When we rejected the Supplementary Health Benefits Policy, people made it clear that we don’t want you to test income as eligibility criteria. With that went out the door the ability to determine working poor. Other than covering everybody, we have to put some kind of eligibility. That has to have a bigger debate and we can’t do that within the framework of what we were told in the Joint Working Group.