Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is an issue that generates a lot of controversy amongst my colleagues when we talk about the extent to which they'll have flexibility when it comes to the way that they use their money. We feel that the strongest mechanism that we can institute to get positive cost benefits is holding each deputy minister accountable for bottom-line management, and making sure that every expenditure they make, whether it's in the area of buying fuel for their vehicle, renting a vehicle to drive to Rae or from Fort Smith to Hay River, putting out a publication to promote better understanding of programs and services, or to attract tourism to the Northwest Territories. The best way to deal with that is to deal with it from the point of view of assessing the results that we get from the expenditures that are made.
The move towards user-pay is, in many ways, a move towards the empowerment of government departments who, for many years, have been restricted by central agencies like the Financial Management Board Secretariat and Public Works and Services, who have put a lot of roadblocks in their way and made it more difficult for them to get their jobs done. Many of the problems that we experience are because
of the fact that we have too many rules and regulations and we haven't held our managers accountable for the bottom line. That's really a big change that we expect to see as we move ahead on this user-pay initiative and, ultimately, towards community empowerment. Monitoring of those results is going to be critical, I think, to determining whether it's going to work.