Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As we finalize all the details needed to move forward incorporating all the different components of the health system into one authority as part of health transformation, residents will be able to go anywhere in the Northwest Territories that they choose to go for health services. So, if we have residents in Fort Resolution who wish to see a doctor in Hay River, there's nothing stopping them from doing that.

We do encourage people to go to their local provider first. For example, somebody in Fort Resolution, if they're looking for health services, should obviously go to their Fort Resolution health centre. If they're referred out, they could be referred to a large number of places, depending on what it is that they're trying to get. If it's MRI, we're going to refer them to Edmonton. If it's a specialty physician they're going to likely go to Yellowknife; unless it happens to be one of the specialty services that is not provided in the Northwest Territories, at which point they would be referred to Edmonton. If they're looking to see a GP, there's no reason why we couldn't refer them to Hay River.

We do need to make sure that those memorandums of understanding and agreement between the territorial authority and Hay River, which we are working on; Hay River is participating and working with us to develop those memorandums of understanding. I will find out where we are with respect to allowing or supporting a referral from Fort Resolution to Hay River for the services that happen to be in Hay River, but where there aren't services in Hay River, they are going to have to be referred to somewhere else. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.