Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to focus my Member's statement today on another concern and issue that we have with our Medical Travel Policy. As Members who represent people of the public, we come across situations that we don't always account for or ever think that would happen. This was the case of one my most recent situations, where an individual who was travelling inside the Northwest Territories - or any individual, for that matter, who runs into some unforeseen health issues and whether or not our government takes care of them while they are in the situation when they might have been travelling for personal or other business issues throughout the Northwest Territories. That's just the issue that I'm dealing with right now.
I'm not sure how many other MLAs or residents of the Northwest Territories might have run into this problem, where they went travelling for other business for their work or, like I said, other personal commitments, and received some medical attention and were refused. This is the situation: they were refused possible accommodations, even a boarding home, as well as refused possible transportation upon returning to their home when they had to go back to a small community. In such cases, when a person is travelling from a small community, they have some kind of charter vehicle or something to get them back in a proper time after their personal or their work-related events happen, and in this case it was work related and they did miss a charter and a shuttle in and now they're a little concerned about how they're going to get back home to the community.
I will ask questions to the Minister of Health in dealing with these kinds of situations when there are unexpected medical issues that happen for our residents of the Northwest Territories who are travelling inside the Northwest Territories when medical travel has told them that they won't be able to help them out because they weren't sent out of their home community on their medical travel. That needs to be dealt with.
I will ask questions of the Minister of Health later, on some of these policies and how we can change them and, in this certain case, how can we make things better for the resident and for their family and for other people in the Northwest Territories. Thank you.