Thank you for that.
I guess we live this every day. It all speaks to how our people are being treated in the system.
In full disclosure, we are minority owners of a company called Larga Ltd., which provides boarding-home services for medical travel for visitors from the NWT and Nunavut in Edmonton, Alberta. We've been providing this for over 30 years. The genesis of Larga Edmonton was that we were seeing residents returning to our communities sicker than when they'd left. Oftentimes these individuals were being medevaced. It was determined that the major reason was the diet that was imposed upon our medical travellers.
The early owners of Larga decided to propose to the Government of the NWT that they purchase a home staffed with northerners who relocated to the Edmonton area and arranged at times for the provision of traditional foods, such as fish and caribou, for the residents. From the recognition of this gap in the service that was created as a result, Larga Ltd. has been a tremendous success story, offering residents of the north a home away from home while also having the ability to interact with others who are on medical travel themselves.
Larga has now expanded into other jurisdictions, which I am sure you are aware of, such as Winnipeg and eastern Canada. It is culturally considerate care for those who need to be in southern Canada for short periods of time, and truly a model that was well ahead of its time in a pre-TRC world.