That's an interesting question, Mr. Chair.
Right now, I think as you can imagine, staffing remote and isolated communities is very complex and very difficult. Although, as I described, in the first nation communities for the most part throughout Canada our mandate is public community health care, first nations people who live on reserve or in Inuit communities access the provincial health system for physician, dental, and even chiropractic care.
It is through our non-insured health benefits program that we either provide medical transportation to these services or pay for the services, such as dental services specifically. In the remote communities, occasionally we are able to have and find physicians and other health professions beyond nursing who are willing to come into the communities on a rotating basis based on the need of a community. I can't speak to the fact if ever a chiropractor has been brought in, but I know physicians come in on an occasional basis. We pay for their travel in and they bill the provincial health system because of the universal nature of physician services in the health system.
If there are other more specialty services or dental services, sometimes they're brought in, but more specifically people are transported out of their communities to the provincial health system. Sometimes we've also used the mid-level dental technician, dental therapist, to provide some services in the remote communities under the guidance of a dentist. There are a variety of different ways to do that.