Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the nice things about moving to a single authority, with the exception of Hay River and the Tlicho, is that it actually allows us to have this discussion, which is a discussion that we weren't able to have before when services were provided for a group of people.
Now, certainly, we can explore the possibility of mothers who meet the criteria for midwifery-supported birth can explore possibly having that birth in Hay River. There are some conditions around the birth. I think, for some situations, a first birth is something that we can't facilitate. If a medical assessment demonstrates that there is a risk during pregnancy, we wouldn't be able to do that. We don't do that now. They come out of Fort Smith or they come out of Hay River if that is the case. We are not all the way there. This is really year one, start of implementation. The clinical supervisor, one of the positions that were created, is going to be the one to help us figure out how to facilitate that moving forward.
I think your dream is one of the ones that we are trying to actually get to on this particular model. It is going to take us some time, but it does make sense. It also could provide us some really solid results for those non-risk births out there that are happening in Fort Resolution and other communities in close proximity to our midwifery services that already exist.