Thank you. On the matter of financial matters, a directive can be issued by the Minister to a board in those particular matters. The other point is, there is no reduction in the formula. In fact, what we ask is based on the formula that has been assigned; formula dollars. They have to develop a recovery plan for that board, whether it is the South Slave divisional board or the Keewatin. They are responsible for developing the recovery plan. We, as a department, work in conjunction with those boards so we have a sense of where it is they are going to reduce their liabilities. One of the problems we've had is we've had expenditures that have far exceeded the revenues; in other words, far exceeded the amount of money they're actually allocated.

I just want to be clear in the context of the comments made by Mr. Pollard. The dollars you are looking at, where it reads they are offset by recovery of divisional board surpluses, are not surpluses of the formula dollars. These are the actual number of dollars voted for O and M, DPW costs, and those kinds of associated costs. What happened is, in some cases the dollars were assigned to various boards and we found we had surpluses in that area and had shortfalls in the three boards before us. So we could then reassign the dollars because we didn't need to spend them on O and M costs in other regions.