Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ve wanted to tag team with my colleague from the Mackenzie Delta on this issue of medical escorts, especially paid escorts from our small communities. When I returned back to Yellowknife, I met a constituent in Deline that talked about him going out with an elder to escort the elder out, but the elder is going to be in the hospital for about a month or so and he said I just can’t afford to stay with him for a month or so. We need to do something with the medical escorts, so I’m glad that Mr. Blake is raising it today.

I wanted to ask the Minister, between the RFP and the reviews and the feedback, committee work, in between that is there any type of interim solution? This person is going to go out next week. Can he seek some type of formal financial compensation, because he’s away from his job, his community, he has family obligations in his community, which he does not see anything now?