Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This area that Mr. Steen has raised is one where there seems to be some controversy or misunderstanding. If Trail Cross is privatized, then it's operated by a private contractor an
what they are compensated for running that contract in that facility; people are calling it profit but it is, in fact, what they're being paid to do. When a government worker goes to work and collects their pay cheque every two weeks, that's their pay cheque, that's what they get paid for doing that; it's not a charitable organization where the government runs it. People get paid to run it. When it's a private contractor, the contractor gets paid, the staff get paid and they cover their overhead.
There are private contractors and then there are charitable, non-profit organizations. The hospital in Hay River was run by a charitable, non-profit organization on a contract basis but sometimes people get those all mixed in together. The Minister can clarify this, but I think that when a health or a social service facility is operated by a private contractor, it might be wrong to say profit. They may be remunerated for providing that service as a private individual as opposed to the government paying people in the public service to do the same thing.