Glen Abernethy

Once again, this is based on formula financing and the amount we get as revenues increases 2 percent annually. We will go back and see, we’ll be able to pull out from the mains what was there. So we’ll get an idea of what we expected to come in. What we actually spent, we’ll do our best. I don’t believe we’ll be able to go back 10 years, but we’ll go back as far as we can and some of it still might be projections because it would be really impossible to figure out just for Aboriginal people what the cost of health care was in the Northwest Territories, but we will do our best and we will try...

We provide services to residents from Nunavut here in the Northwest Territories. We charge Nunavut. The relationship between the residents of Nunavut and their government with respect to NIHB is done there. We don’t get involved in the discussions between Nunavut and the federal government. We have discussions with our residents who are covered by NIHB with the federal government. So a Nunavut resident comes in, whether they are NIHB or not NIHB, we provide services, we charge Nunavut, Nunavut then figures out their banking with respect to NIHB and the federal government. We’re not involved in...

Thank you. In different jurisdictions in the country things are funded in different ways on reserves and whatnot in southern Canada. By way of example, health services are paid by the NIHB First Nations Inuit Health Branch. In Canada, in the Northwest Territories rather, when we devolve down the responsibility for health care, we agreed to pay all those costs within our system. These dollars that you’re seeing here, as far as revenues, were negotiated back then. They grow at, I think, about 2 percent a year. Our costs have far exceeded that. So anything that is not covered by these dollars...

Thank you. The dollars you see on page 8-37 are for NIHB are not revenue. We’re not making money on that at all. We’re receiving the dollars and providing the service.

It’s different for every profession, as was indicated. The doctors would pay the licensing fee and that’s part of our revenue, but for professions like nurses, they’re paying their licensing fee to a territorial body or through them to a Canadian body. So they’d pay those, but we reimburse some of our nurses in the Northwest Territories that are employees. So the nurses aren’t showing up here, just the ones that are coming to us.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. NIHB covers things like dental and other extended benefits like medications and whatnot. The provision of care is provided within our facility for what would be considered more of the standard care. This covers that and it’s negotiated with the federal government. It was negotiated many years ago and I believe – and if I’m wrong, correct me – we have a 2 percent standard flat rate. So our rate here increases by about 2 percent a year, which is less than the 8, obviously.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s an accountant type question, so what I’m going to do is go to Ms. Mathison to respond.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The professional licence fees are for things like medical licences and things like that. With respect to how it’s figured or calculated, I’ll go to Director Mathison.

No.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document, titled “NWT Health and Social Services System 2012-2013 Annual Report: Measuring Success and Focusing on Results.” Thank you, Mr. Speaker.