I suppose, to give an example, if that is what the Member wants, the Department of Social Services and the Department of Health are run as two separate departments at this point in time. The inefficiencies that people have complained about is that when they want to access the Department of Health, it has one set of rules, policies and guidelines. They will go so far, and then it stops, and then they have to begin the process all over in accessing Social Services. The feeling of people all throughout the Northwest Territories is, why are not the Departments of Health and Social Services combined? Some of them have functions that are somewhat in duplication of each department. It is very difficult for an average person to move in and access the departments because of the duplication. As well, the functions are similar, so in collapsing Health and Social Services together, obviously the savings would be increased, presumably.
Once we go through the exercise, it appears from the outset that they would be somewhat reduced because of the administrative factor; rather than running two duplicate administrative factors to support Health and Social Services, you would have one. I am talking from some of the discussions that we have had, and once we go into the implementation I think that will flesh out a little bit more. Certainly, from the people's point of view, this has been an ongoing issue for some time, so in putting these two departments together you would probably have a better way of dealing with the duplication, and there would be administrative support and easier access by the clientele. That is one area, as an example, that would, at the outset, be more cost-effective and also provide easier access and eliminate some of the duplication. I do not know if that is what the Member is asking for, as an example.
For example, when you look at the Power Corporation and petroleum products delivery, each agency in the communities has a tankage system, and from time to time, in the last while, the issue has been how much of a tankage system is required at the community level since they are very expensive commodities. In putting the two together I would presume that we would have, collectively, much more capacity for storage for all the needs of the communities. Thank you.