Those remarks don’t fit with any of my experience whatsoever.

Thank you to the Minister for his response. I’m sure he’s hearing from MLAs who have constituents with ideas to contribute.

Medical travel insurance for people travelling outside the Territories has been rightly suggested for NWT residents who travel. The issue of SFA, Student Financial Assistance, sponsoring students possibly needing such extra coverage, which could possibly include medical travel support for parents when appropriate, seems to me a special case that could be covered under a group insurance plan included in SFA for sponsored students.

As the Minister responsible for social...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Minister mentioned the transfer of the NGO Stabilization Fund being proposed. Is that relevant to the directorate, or perhaps I could have some advice on what page that would appear.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on my Member’s statement today on the subject of medical travel for the parents of children who are attending school in southern Canada and diagnosed with serious illnesses. So, for the Minister of Health and Social Services, these youth obviously need a parent with them at this stressful time and normally would be escorted by a parent to their treatments if the child’s travel originated in the NWT. There’s a clear policy gap here. I understand that there’s a review of the medical escort policy underway.

Can the Minister tell me who is conducting...

I know the Minister is capable of putting all kinds of barriers up here but we need something done now. This has accelerated and exacerbated itself to the point where, you know, this is overdue. I realize that we can‘t do the perfect thing, so I‘m talking about an interim solution and I think a yellow flashing light… There are no obstructions, there‘s plenty of time for people to see those. I‘m not an expert so I‘m just giving you my opinion here, but something in the interim, in my mind, could be done at relatively modest expense. Recognizing that we are talking years now, still, after eight...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A Medical Travel Policy gap causing grief for northern families needs resolution. Specifically, problems are arising for those who have children going to school in southern Canada under the Student Financial Assistance program and who fall ill and require hospitalization or treatment. At a time when these kids desperately need them, their parents are unable to access travel support to attend them because the medical travel is not initiated in the Northwest Territories. Yet if these students had fallen ill at home, their own plus an escort’s travel costs would be covered...

I’ll leave it at that. I think it’s always good, as the Auditor General continually reminds us, to have an evaluation program in place when we start new programs like this. I would have thought there would have been one and I hope the department will address that. For now, I appreciate the Minister’s commitment.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I also want to follow up on the Green Light, I believe it was called, environmental strategy for the department. Are we expecting an update on that strategy or that process and an evaluation of how well we’re doing?

Thank you, Madam Chair. That’s good. I was just asking when that might be.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Building Canada Fund dollars, are they reflected on this page or is that something we will fill in later?