Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I -- I'm going to try and come at this from a slightly different angle just so we're not belabouring the point too badly on extended health benefits. But I wanted to ask specifically about the northern market basket measure and the switch to using this as kind of a determined -- the ceiling under which people would be covered or would have to kind of cover some of the costs themselves, increasing on a sliding scale from there. So I'd just like to hear from the department the appropriateness of using the basket measure. I know that the NWT has its own that it's kind of developed based on the federal one. I actually asked the developers of the federal one by e-mail last week about whether the basket measure was intended to be used to determine program eligibility for programs such as this, and they were very clear that it was not developed to be used as a tool for that. Still in the process of putting together a written question on that question specifically. But I was just hoping to get some commentary from the department on, you know, why that's been determined as the appropriate tool to determine eligibility for this program? Thank you.
Julian Morse on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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