Thank you, Ms. Green. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, that would be in diagnostic and therapeutic services, not in ambulatory care. Before we go on, though, I'd just like to point out that, throughout this budget, I think it's important to recognize that there are multiple areas within this budget where you'll see increases that are directly related to Stanton, the growth at Stanton and opening the new facility. For instance, on this page, it's under "Emergency Services." We have four new RN's in the Stanton emergency. I just want to make it clear that, although we talked about in the previous section, it will be through many sections that you'll see the standing up of Stanton in this budget. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Ms. Green.

Thank you to the Minister for pointing that out. I have nothing further on this page.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Any further questions? Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Out-of-territory physicians, are those locums? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Minister Abernethy.

No, Mr. Chair. "Out-of-territory physicians" refers to services received by residents of the Northwest Territories when they're outside of the Northwest Territories. For instance, we send somebody out for medical travel. We still have to pay for those services. That would be under that. The cost of locum physicians is out of our medical budget, and we don't have an extra budget for that. We have to use it out of the existing funds. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Any further questions, committee? Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Is this the section where midwifery is found, or is it in the next one, under community health programs? Can someone help me? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Minister Abernethy.

No, Mr. Chair. This isn't the appropriate section. That section would be nursing inpatient services.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I will wait until we get to that part of the main estimates. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Any further questions, committee? Seeing none, I will call the page. Ambulatory care services, 2019-2020 main estimates, $77,575,000. Does committee agree?

Agreed. Thank you. Next, we have community health programs, operations expenditure summary, 2019-2020 main estimates, $180,818,000, from pages 175 to 179. Any questions? Ms. Green.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a number of questions that relate to this activity. The first relates to homecare and support services. The estimates for the next fiscal year show a reduction from the current fiscal year. I'm wondering if the Minister can tell us why there's a reduction. Thank you.

The drop in this particular line is actually not as large as it looks because what this line does not show is the federal money that we're getting, which has been included in previous years' budgets. It hasn't come through the appropriation process to appear. It will likely come through by way of a supplementary. That will increase the budget here by a fair amount. There is a reduction in this area, a $600,000 reduction, which is part of the $2.5 million that was allocated in 2017-2018 but not spent. We had to make some hard decisions moving forward. We knew that we wanted to or, rather, we needed to make some additional investments in the Child and Family Services areas. There was some money in this particular area that was not spent. We are looking to stand up some work, and we're still making some progress around testing some of the new models for homecare, so we had to make the hard decision to reinvest some of those dollars in Child and Family Services.

I would like to point out that, since 2016, our budget in this area has increased by $3.2 million, and that's even with the reduction of $600,000 calculated in. This is basically a 24-percent increase in this area, and it has added 14 new homecare positions during that time, which is basically an increase of 21 percent of positions in this area. The $600,000 does not result in the reduction of any services that currently exist in homecare. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Ms. Green.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a number of follow-up questions. How much money is the department expecting to come from the federal government, for homecare? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Minister Abernethy.

$790,000 in the upcoming fiscal year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.