Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a number of documents to table. The first one is a letter to the Honourable Premier Floyd Roland, dated April 16th, from me, outlining a significant number of concerns related to changes to the Supplemental Health Program, as well as some potential recommendations on how to move forward with fixing the policy without disadvantaging a significant population of the Northwest Territories.
The second tabled document I’d like to table is a response from Premier Floyd Roland dated May 6th, which doesn’t actually address any of the questions asked or talked to any degree about any of the recommendations that I made, but it does indicate that not only does Cabinet clearly approve the Supplemental Health Policy, it has also provided frequent direction on program development and implementation to the Minister of Health and Social Services and will review the program proposals again before anything is implemented. Collectively we remain convinced that asking those who can afford it to contribute something to their own costs, as most NWT residents already do.
The third document I’d like to table is the Policy on Supplementary Health Benefits.
The process is to table a document and not read it out. If you have a document to table, table the document as a whole and don’t read out the document. Thank you. Mr. Abernethy.
