Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be voting in favour of this motion. It does bode a lot of questions and brings up a lot of issues we have with medical travel. Obviously, there are a lot of financial pressures with medical travel. The budgets are growing on a steady basis and this would include some more pressure to that. One of the
things I indicated on why I would support this is if it was done on a hardship basis. People would have to prove that there’s a need. There has to be a hardship. I wouldn’t want to see us doing this with every medical travel situation, but if families or people or escorts who require some sort of financial help, we do it on a case-by-case basis and we look at the hardship, this is something we may want to implement.
I look forward to hearing the government’s reply to this motion. Yes, I will support it. The concern I have is we are dealing with hardship cases and not every medical escort. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.