Thank you, Madam Chair. I will just end with a comment in that I think we are a very unique jurisdiction in that half our population automatically falls under NIHB, and then the largest employer in the territory is the GNWT and their dependents. We end up extending health benefits to numerous other people. We end up with these 2,200 working poor who don't get health benefits. If you did this analysis, I imagine any other jurisdiction except, perhaps, Nunavut, it just wouldn't be feasible to provide everyone benefits with such a small amount of money. I just would encourage the Minister, during this review, I think there is a way to do this, and maybe it's creative negotiating with the federal government for some sort of territorial health benefit package that exists or looking at what other jurisdictions do where they needs-test it. I really encourage the department to take a serious look at this. I think it would be a great legacy to give the working poor Extended Health Benefits. Do we have a timeline for when that review is done? Madam Chair, thank you.
Rylund Johnson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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