Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Full disclosure: I have had a number of conversations with the Member about this. I know she is very passionate about it, and I understand why. As MLAs, we all deal with our constituents, and we all feel their frustration when they cannot get services that they want to access.
Integrated case management has been a very successful program to help individuals with a lot of needs, who access a lot of different departments. It has been able to help them find the help that they need. Right now, there are around 95 clients who have pathfinders, as they are called, assigned to them, but there is also a large waiting list. Even without self-referral, we have a very large wait list. If there was self-referral, it would then put more burden on the ICM program to sift through those people to see, "Okay. Who do we take next?" At least with the process as it is, that filtering process is done.
That is not to say that everyone who should be referred has been referred, but we are trying to do better. While we are not looking at a self-referral model, we are doing a lot of the things that the Member has already spoken about in terms of making it easier to access programs as they are as opposed to having somebody walk with you while you access them. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.