Mr. Speaker, at the end of the day we have to provide healthcare services. Because there's less money coming from the feds, we don’t get to say, no, you're sick; we won't treat you, or you need dialysis, we won't provide you with dialysis. We will. We're going to continue to provide those services. What it means is we have less federal dollars going to it which means it's going to have to be made up in some capacity through our other revenues. But we're committed to providing comprehensive healthcare services here in the Northwest Territories. There's absolutely areas we need to do better. There's absolutely areas that we need improvement as clearly articulated in the mandate that we're working on together to try to improve those services. But we will continue to provide services.

I'm optimistic that the Premiers will be able to come to some sort of resolution with the Prime Minister of Canada and get that funding levels back up to a 6 per cent annual increase. Until such a time, all the provinces and territories are at 25 per cent funding from Ottawa, 75 per cent funding from the provinces and territories. Currently in the Northwest Territories, CHT covers about 10.6 per cent. In most provinces and territories, CHT covers about 20 per cent, so in the provinces there's about a 5 per cent shortfall. Here it's slightly larger.