Perhaps this is my last question. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was just seeking to understand whether -- you know, we purport in one instance to recognize 11 official languages, including Aboriginal languages. Now we finally recognize the Dene font. Am I missing something here? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Minister.

Thank you. Mr. Chair, with respect to some of our legal documents, such as our birth certificate, although we had an obligation under the Official Languages Act, our documents only recognize the Roman alphabet in the production of those documents.

There was an official languages review done by the official languages commissioner that indicated that it would be appropriate, given that we have an Official Languages Act here, in the Northwest Territories, that our legal documents could include all of the official languages and utilize the appropriate fonts. I have asked the department to move forward with the changes to the Vital Statistics Act that will allow us to use Dene fonts in our Aboriginal languages on some of our defining documents. I intend to bring that legislation forward during this sitting, at which point it will be in committee's hands. Once it passes, hopefully in the fall, we will be in a position to begin operationalizing that.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. No further questions on page 177. Moving on to page 178, Health and Social Services, administrative and support services, active positions, information item. Any questions for page 178? Seeing none, page 176, Health and Social Services, administrative and support services, operations expenditure summary, total activity $77,812,000. Agreed?

Moving on to page 180, Health and Social Services, operations expenditure summary, this will be deferred. Moving on to detail, page 181, Health and Social Services, ambulatory care services, grants, contributions, and transfers, information item. Any questions? Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to understand again. Maybe we could get an explanation from the Minister: why was ambulatory care services established as a separate key activity? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, these changes came into place during the last main estimates process. What we were trying to do is to align how we report all of our finances within our authorities to be consistent with CIHI reporting. Ambulatory care is one of the areas that we were required to report on, but we didn't always align those financially. They were all spread out in different areas. Last main estimates, we've brought everything in line; all the authorities report on the same criteria, and the department now reports to the same criteria to be compliant with CIHI and a few of the -- oh, sorry, the Canadian Institution of Health Information, so we're now consistent with how they report and how we are required to provide them data.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Nadli.

Yes, thank you. Again, Mr. Chair, I'm just trying to -- maybe, I don't know if the Minister or his officials would have access to just a total figure amount for in one year how much money is expended in terms of medevacs out of small communities into Yellowknife. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we do have the dollar figures that were expended in previous years for medical travel and medevacs. I'm sure I can get the department to break it down on what the cost per region was for medevacs. Would that suffice?

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Nadli.

Yes, thank you.

We'll do that.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Further questions. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I notice it's an increase of $1.3 million compared for the main estimates from last year. Is there a rationale for the huge increase on this? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it's a bit more than that. We have $1 million forced growth for out-of-territory hospitals; we have got a $47,000 forced growth on supplies, and we have a $1.23 million in forced growth for the dialysis requirements in Stanton.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The numbers that the Minister talked about just seem to be a little high compared to the numbers I see on this page, which are $24,403,000 and the Main Estimates were $23,083,000. The Minister just quoted a couple, about $4 million increases -- or 2.3, sorry. What I'm trying to figure out is where the discrepancy is. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The discrepancy is because I jumped back a page. The out-of-territorial hospitals, the forced growth doesn't appear on page 181, but it is included on page 180. This whole area in total did get an increase of about $2 million in those areas, the ones I outlined previously.