Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To date it is my understanding that the Program Review Office does not charge back for full accounting of reviewing of programs. It would then stand to reason to me, and to other Members potentially, that the Program Review Office be tasked to do this review of the midwifery services.
As the Member has offered to this House the cost of $100,000 that would go to an RFP, would it not make sense that we apply this $100,000 for the review back to the person actually doing the services, or I should say who was doing the services for the record, and allow the Program Review Office to do the review at the same time? If there was not money available for that to provide service money to continue the Midwifery Program, then it seems odd that there’s money to review it. We would have been able to save money on one hand and continue the service until we got a good quality program. With that type of comment, would the Minister be willing to reconsider this approach?