Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of the witnesses for being here today.
I have to admit that I'm a little bit surprised at how much discussion we've had about medical transportation today. I thought that would be a more peripheral topic today, and I want to focus a couple of my questions for Vice-Chief Pratt on exactly that topic. He's very familiar, obviously, with my riding in northern Saskatchewan as he just referred to some of the rising costs and the challenges.
I'm going to change it up a little bit to drill into some comments that he made. He talked about the review of the NIHB program and some of that going on. The vice-chief also talked about service providers dropping out at rapid rates, and I know he referred to dental and optometry, but I want to tie that back to travel for a second. Before all of this study began, I actually had some people reaching out to my office about their concerns with trying to survive in the medical taxi business from northern Saskatchewan
In the context of the review, you referred to the high cost, the cost of fuel, etc. In that review, was there any discussion going on about how we ensure that we don't lose those service providers who are providing some of the transport, as well, or is that becoming an issue in Saskatchewan that you are aware of?