Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is -- yes, it's regarding -- I know the extended health benefit, there are some -- some of my constituents, they're going to benefit from this. So it's good that it's there. But I'm going to speak to medical travel benefits.
I do sympathize with the Deh Cho because that person, he worked many years, over 20 years, and paid his tax. I don't know him personally but there's a lot of people that know him in Tlicho region. And he paid his tax. He paid income tax, territorial tax. And yet we cannot provide a medical travel assistance to come home.
My constituent went through this last year too as well because the medical service was not provided to the individual, it's a retiree, an elder and retiree. Same thing, paying her tax all through the years of working for the government and she was denied. So the family took it upon themselves to travel south and to come home. That was denied. But the only thing the government approved, it's sad to say what Deh Cho is going through, is the government paid for the body to come home. And I don't like that. I don't agree with it. It would be nice if the medical travel can be extended to NWT residents because there are some things that happened, it is beyond our control. I know medical travel is important. It's necessary for NWT residents due to some of the services that we don't have in the North, so medical travel is approved with agreement in place with Alberta. It is in place for them to seek the services provided.
But I just wanted to ask the Minister further to what my colleague said, part of the review -- I know insurance benefit when we're travelling, they always say do you want medical travel insurance, do you want insurance, you know. So if those kind of insurance can be extended to NWT residents provided to the residents wanting to travel or to travel outside of NWT, so we do not have to go through this, through what the -- my colleague from Deh Cho is going through and what my previous -- my former -- my late constituent through last year. So I just wanted to ask the Minister if they can seek or find some ways to extend this medical travel to all of the NWT residents that are going to be travelling outside? And I know they're reviewing that medical travel, but I just wanted to know if they can find some ways to accommodate the northern residents who lived here. Some of them were born and raised here. Some of them, they spend over 20 years here and then we cannot, you know, just let them be out there. And then, you know, we have to accommodate them. We have to find some ways to bring them back home. So will the Minister answer that or, you know, make it part of their review.