Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the medical travel policy -- and I hear the Member, you know. And if people leave the territory on their own for whatever reason and it's not through being sent out for a medical -- through medical travel for access to an appointment or surgery or services, then this program doesn't apply to those people. So any residents or any people that are travelling out of territory, that's why I was saying in the House it's very important that you know what your coverage is, and I was saying some people have credit cards. And I hear the Member, you know, and I'm sure she'll tell me back that her elder doesn't have a credit card or something, you know, and I understand that, you know. But it's really important that, you know, there's services for -- and our residents need to -- and, you know, because we've -- this is not the first -- like I said, this is not the first person that's -- the BF that's come through the Minister's office with the same concern. And many NWT residents, you know, do not realize that when they're leaving on their own, that it's not medical travel and so when they end up getting sick or somewhere outside of anywhere in Canada or anywhere, then they're -- it's their responsibility to get back home.
I hear the Member. I know that we're doing a review, but this medical travel is not an insurance program. It's what we -- actual costs that we pay to send people out. The fee that we have to pay to the boarding homes, the flights that we have to pay for medical travel, it's not an insurance. Insurance is what I said is outside, so if people are leaving the territory. And I get -- and I hear -- you know, I know the Member, you know, in small communities not everybody has this information. And so that's for us to try -- I guess to try and make sure that people are aware of what they're covered for, whether they live in the city or whether they live in a small community and they choose to travel outside the territory for personal reasons. Thank you.