Yeah, thank you very much, Madam Chair. And I think even though the government won't pay for people to jump the queue, people are paying for people to jump the queue. And so I'm going to use I guess a very specific example of that of Northerners travel out-of-territory, for example, to go get an MRI, and they go on a waitlist to go and receive that service. They're referred by a doctor to do that. They go down to Alberta to access that service. But they have to wait on a waitlist to do that. What some residents are able to do is to phone a clinic, get on a list, get down to Alberta, do an MRI, and come home. My concern is is that even though we're -- even though that person is on a waitlist for Alberta, if they set up it themselves, is -- and they have the referral, is the GNWT willing to support that, because, really, they're helping us on that catch-up plan; they're helping us move through that list; and so they're just getting there a different way but still with the same path of having the referral. And so all I'm looking for is us being able to kind of open up how we are working through that catch-up plan by people being able to be a bit more proactive. Because my concern is that if the GNWT can't support that, then healthcare becomes a means of people with means. And so if you don't have the finances to pay for that upfront and somebody else does, then really, it's not equitable access to healthcare. That's my concern there. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caitlin Cleveland on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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