[Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]
Thank you.
My question is about medical escorts.
We hear over and over that Nunavummiut have to go on medical leave, and most of them require medical escorts to travel. They go on a volunteer basis as medical escorts, with no pay. We want to make sure that those essential, much-needed service providers are paid or remunerated for their services. Some of those medical escorts can be gone for a long time, up to a month. They are away from their families and children. They have to take leave from their jobs, and sometimes they lose their jobs when they become medical escorts and they are escorting patients.