Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to the Minister for that. And thank you to her department for sending us some more information about EHB today. I really appreciate it. In the -- and it was a publicly accessible letter. Thank you for that.

So in that letter, it's noted that currently about 1,400 people are in the EHB program under the specified disease conditions list. The department estimates that that will grow when the specified disease condition list is dropped and the new policy rolls out in September, and the cost differential that health is estimating will be about $1.2 million. So it's an increase in expenditures for the department even with this change. And I can appreciate, you know, wanting to get folks who are, you know, finding it -- who fall below the threshold on to a program that allows them to access benefits. No issues there. I think it's great. Hundred percent behind it.

In previous presentations, public presentations that the department gave to Members, they used the calculator that is publicly available as well, and they spoke about band 15. So just as an example, for band 15 in Yellowknife, the net income for a single person who falls under band 15 -- I realize it might be different for families or folks with dependents -- it's $74,431 net income. So someone who's making probably in the range of $95,000 of gross income. So if you work out the average rent and grocery bill that a single person would pay even if, say, you're -- you know, you're a roommate, in a roommate situation, say you're at the beginning of your career in your early or late 20s, the deductible for a single person to co-pay into medication is $540 and you max out at -- I think it's 820, which is another $280 on top of that. So for that entire expenditure over a year, that's basically coming out to -- you know, if you're in a roommate situation, that's -- if you're lucky, that's a month of rent. So I guess my question to the Minister for her isn't really so much a question as a comment but, you know, how does she see someone, you know, basically paying an extra month of rent here in the capital as being an equitable program? Thank you, Mr. Chair.