I’m glad to hear the Minister say that it’s not an option to reduce physician support and nurse practitioners and that we will continue to fund those. I also sincerely hope that we will get an extension of this federal funding, because we desperately need it in order to provide the proper physician and nursing support that we need for our hospitals and health centres.
With regard to medical travel, it’s been mentioned by many Members and with regard to the amount of money that we currently put in to medical travel from our federal funding, it’s a large amount. What plan – and the Minister’s talked about a review of the Medical Travel Policy – exists specifically to medical travel to either (a) reduce the costs of our medical travel, or (b) find another revenue source to supplement the medical travel costs that we endure?