Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have put in place a pilot project. It was a contract with Dalhousie University’s global psychiatry services, and we did get some additional funding through the

Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan to support that, which we combined with funding on a team basis with Stanton and Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority. The intent was to improve access to psychiatric outpatient services. Dalhousie had committed to have people on the ground for a certain period of time every month as well as to provide specialized services through locums upon request and to provide telehealth counselling to enhance services.

As the Minister said, there have been some problems. We’re coming to the end of the contract. It winds up at the end of this fiscal year. We ran into technical difficulties in terms of our technology working with Dalhousie’s technology, which made it challenging to do the scheduled telehealth. Dalhousie had some changes in personnel which made it difficult for them to provide the specialized services we needed particularly in the area of psychiatric services for children and youth which is where we’re seeing the greatest pressures. Right now Yellowknife Health and Social Services and Stanton are working together to do an evaluation of how that contract has worked and that will inform a decision whether to extend the contract and work with Dal to change how we approach it or whether to pull back that funding and look at another way to achieve to filling the gaps that we have and some of the changing circumstances, because we’re really seeing an increase in the demand for services for children and youth.