Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the way that they are dealing with surge capacity in a situation like that is that they would reduce services and so that they can target to a situation like this, that this is a communicable disease, this is something that is, you know, potentially, if not dealt with right away, you know, and as -- I know that the Minister of Finance had details on what those costs were and how many people were involved with a case that just happened recently in Yellowknife, and so the amount of service and contact tracing and then directly observed therapy and all of those things they take -- they have to be done by the staff. And so the way that we have to deal with it is through decreasing services in some times in some areas that are nonurgent, so that is traditionally how it's done. And that's how it's done in our smallest of communities. When we have surge capacity of people that are coming in, a lot of our health centres end up -- and many people who live in small communities know this -- that we end up having to decrease services to just emergency services only in those communities, so there is no other services provided, and that's traditionally how we have had to deal with it. Thank you.
Lesa Semmler on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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