Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t have too much to add. These are very similar questions that were asked during oral questions last week by the other Member for Hay River, Jane Groenewegen. We do an assessment of an individual biannually, so two times a year we’ll do individual assessments to determine if there is an opportunity to bring them back and what the current status is. Where we have an opportunity to repatriate, we do.
I also had an opportunity, during the previous budget session, to indicate that we are going to have our territorial services take a look at all the individuals down south to see if there is any opportunity to repatriate a block of individuals with like conditions. Unfortunately, as Minister Miltenberger said, we did that review and we didn’t find a group of individuals with like conditions that we could bring back and put in a territorial facility, but we will do that review every couple of years because the realities could change.
Where we stand today is there isn’t a block of individuals we can repatriate as a result of like conditions. We continue to do the biannual review of individuals and where we can repatriate, we do. These individuals have pretty complex conditions requiring extensive care and we haven’t been able to repatriate many of them at this point.