Glen Abernethy

Thank you. We can certainly go back and pull out main estimates for the last 20-some years and show what was budgeted here and what was received here, but as far as what we spent or the cost for providing services to the Aboriginal people only would be darn near impossible to provide back that far.

We provide services in the Northwest Territories for Nunavut residents and we charge Nunavut back for those services. Therefore, it is a revenue we are bringing in which is why it appears on this revenue page.

As I indicated, for bodies like nurses, their registration fees are not coming to us and we would never be able to account that as revenue. But for people like physicians and social workers that pay their licensing fees to us, that would be, and the Member is right; through terms and conditions of employment we might be offsetting it a little bit for social workers, but we’ll do a bit of an analysis on this to indicate or show what we’re actually taking out and if we pay anything out of this particular area.

Thank you. I don’t understand the question. Maybe the Member could clarify a little bit, that would be great.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Non-Insured Health Benefits doesn’t appear on this page. It is on the page that the Member referred to previously. I think it’s page 8-37.

With respect to what we’re billing back from Nunavut, we do bill on actuals, but we have to project based on past experiences. If you look at the first column, 2012-13 actuals, those are the actuals. The main estimates for 2013-14 were based on estimates. The revised main estimates are showing the same number, but in the next main estimates you will see 2013-14 in this column and you will see the actuals because by then we will...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. By way of example, physicians pay their own licensing fees and whatnot, but through terms and conditions of employment, nurses would pay theirs and maybe social workers would pay theirs, but a lot of them can be reimbursed.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m going to go to Ms. Mathison for that, but this is not Non-Insured Health Benefits.

We don’t have a lot of flexibility on the categories we will be able to spend those federal dollars in, but as we get more clarity around those categories that we can spend dollars and we have some concepts or ideas about where we might be able to utilize those dollars, I will absolutely have discussions with committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The agreements are not with the oil companies or businesses providing services in the Northwest Territories. They are with the jurisdiction in which the person lives. So if somebody working at a camp happened to be from Nova Scotia and they were injured and they had to use our facilities, we would charge back Nova Scotia, not the oil company. Our agreements are at a provincial and territorial level.

I do, Mr. Chair.