Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I have also been living the challenges of the authority system for the last four years. The Department of Finance obviously looks closely at what's happening in terms of our budgeting. We carry the budget -- or we carried the deficit, rather, for the authority, but we are also deeply involved in terms of human resources and what's happening. And the authority consistently, sadly, comes in at the bottom of our employee engagement and satisfaction survey. They are the frontline people who are supposed to be keeping our people healthy, and those workplaces are not healthy themselves. Just to put a finer point on it, this is a situation where there is almost one-third of our operating budget going into health. We add $50 million or more into supplementary appropriations, we run a deficit, and it is still not working. We simply -- one thing I will say is we simply cannot continue as we are going on.
The challenge we have right now is the legislative structure makes it so that the NTHSSA does not report to the Minister of health, does not report to the Premier. The CEO reports in to the chair of the wellness leadership council. So we need to, I would suggest, take a look or have the department take a look if that piece of legislation is, in fact, allowing us to accomplish the kind of accountability that we need in our health care system or not or if, in fact, it's time to take another look and see some change in how we structure the accountability within the authority. But in the meantime, I would suggest there's a critical time to work with the wellness council and leadership council and look at all of the thing we know that need doing, whether that's in the human resources sector and the many reports that have come out about how to improve the wellness of our health care providers so that they can better provide services, whether it's to look at the NHIB funding, which is woefully underfunded by the federal government. That also cannot be allowed to continue. We must find a way, immediately, with leadership from across the Northwest Territories to go forward and start to fix some of those problems. Thank you.