Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s already had its second reading and it’s in front of committee, is the Health Professions Act. The Health Professions Act will give us the ability to create regulations to basically licence health professionals like naturopaths in the Northwest Territories. We have four priorities in that area. Recognizing how increasingly popular naturopaths are, naturopaths are actually fourth on the list. I put on the list for something to be done with the other three immediately after the legislation passes.

It will take a while once the legislation passes and is concluded, but we have been talking to the naturopaths and they are aware that the work is being done, and we will certainly be engaging them as we create regulation around that.

Midwives, there are two midwife positions in Fort Smith, two midwife positions in Hay River. We’re excited because there will actually be some births in Hay River as a result of a midwifery support program. The current budget calls for a Midwifery Program to begin rolling out in Beaufort-Delta in ’15-16, but I’ve written a letter to committee, seeking some advice and guidance and possibly going to a territorial program first, rather than going with Inuvik. Realities on the needs from midwives in Beaufort-Delta has changed since we originally came up with the plan to go there, so we’re looking at a territorial program possibly based out of Yellowknife but would also provide midwifery services in Yellowknife. We want to do that planning in ’15-16.

The children with disabilities, I agree with the Member, obviously, with any condition, not just disabilities. But early diagnosis is always going to give us better results. So, we’re constantly working with different professionals to create opportunities or create tools that will help do early diagnosis. We do have to rely an awful lot on some of the work that’s being done in southern jurisdictions where they have more money and more expertise that we can rely on, so we tend to work with a number of southern jurisdictions on those.