Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I think the Member is talking about employer benefits. So the Government of Canada would have employer benefits for its staff. The GNWT has employer benefits for its staff. NIHB provides benefits to Indigenous people who are First Nations and Inuit. Metis health benefits are specifically for Metis beneficiaries. And then the rest of the population are just covered -- either covered by the basic hospital and physician services, which are provided free of charge to everyone or, in some cases, they don't have benefits at all. We know that there are at least 2,300 people in the Northwest Territories who don't have any form of employer benefit, and so they have no drug coverage, no vision, no dental, no medical appliances, nothing. So these employer benefits do vary according to who is providing them. And some are certainly more -- what could I say? More generous than others. And so if you compared GNWT benefits to NIHB benefits, certainly it would be better if you had GNWT benefits. But as I say, those are -- those relate to your employment. So the only way to access GNWT benefits is to work for the GNWT. Thank you.
Julie Green on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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