Thank you, Minister Friesen.
What Métis want—and this is what I have from our people—is to have non-insured health benefits. Yes, Jordan's principle is important. We have had to deal with it. I receive a lot of calls from hospitals when they have a young mom there and a baby was just delivered and they are looking for a car seat. There are no car seats for Métis citizens because they don't have access to Jordan's principle. When they go to the social workers—the workers who provide Jordan's principle and the supports for indigenous people—Métis can't get those.
For non-insured health benefits, there was a question about what this inequity is from. I'd like to share a story from the honourable member Vidal's jurisdiction about a Métis cancer patient. The reason they die sooner than other people is that a Métis cancer patient, for example, had an appointment for chemotherapy and he was hitchhiking to get to his chemo because he wasn't able to get to the medical taxi that was available for first nations and he couldn't afford travel. It was from northwest Saskatchewan. This is the reality that we are seeing. What we want for our citizens in the Métis nation, across the homeland, is to have access to equitable, non-insured health benefits that are self-determined and self-governed by Métis governments.
Thank you.