Julie Green Yellowknife Centre

Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, medical travel will by default approve a support person to go with the pregnant person to Edmonton to give birth. That means that their total benefits are $100 a night for a hotel room - I'm assuming that they would share that hotel room - and $36 for food.

I recognize that that doesn't cover the whole costs, but medical travel doesn't, in any case, cover the whole costs; it makes the services more accessible. But you could argue that that still isn't enough, but that is the medical travel policy as it exists today. Thank you.