Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to ask the Minister somewhat in line with Ms. Bisaro’s question and earlier with Mr. Dolynny’s question. It has to do with medical travel and, specifically, I want to ask the Minister with regard to medevacs in our region.
I know there was some discussion about that with our regional people and the timing. I know the money is a real big issue. We’re always balancing the service of a saving a life versus what it costs for the medevac contracts. I know I’ve been speaking with the airline operator in Sahtu and looking at how we can best save a person’s life and looking at the medevac services with the Department of Health and Social Services, if they are looking at, soon, decentralization of the medevac services. It was done at one time, a report was done, it came back with the best service by the central, one location. I’m looking at the medevacs to see if that would be decentralized to the Inuvik, Sahtu, here and in the South Slave area, if that would make sense.
I don’t think it would take very much to get the operators of the airline companies to sit down and see how they could help each other out with a backup plan to their backup plan on aircrafts. We know that this issue is dear to our hearts and stuff, too, and I think something could be coming good out of this type of discussion. It’s something I want to ask the Minister if he’s willing to look at decentralizing the medevac services into our regions in the Northwest Territories.