Jane Groenewegen

Page 8-24, Health and Social Services, activity summary, health services programs, grants and contributions, grants, $40,000, contributions, $152.528 million, total grants and contributions, $152.568 million. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Ms. Bisaro, your time is up. We are moving on now to Mr. Moses, please.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. The Speaker has indicated the matters before committee today. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Mr. Beaulieu.

Question has been called.

---Carried

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Ms. DeLancey.

Okay, there is such a thing as medical tourism, but that’s not what she said. Okay, thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Next I have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Beaulieu.

I’m going to guess that that per diem cost per patient is not a small amount of money, and I also think that there is probably a fair amount of uptake of beds in that facility. When you look at a community the size of Hay River, which is the second largest community in the Northwest Territories, and the number of people that have to come over here and pay out of their pockets causing financial stress, I think that we need to do a cost-benefit analysis of some other form of accommodation for expectant mothers when they come here that is perhaps specific to Hay River or specific to communities...