First of all, let me say, Mr. Chairman, I understand my honourable colleague's concern. I know it is both personal and professional, and I respect that, and I do. I thought my honourable colleague, Mr. Ng, had attempted to answer it to the best of his ability. He is as equally concerned as I am. I am not technically qualified because I am not the Minister of Health and Social Services to answer that question. I can tell you that there is a genuine concern and a concerted effort on my colleague's part, Mr. Ng, to try to find a solution to this particular problem, but also to find new and creative ways in which to improve health care.
I understand my colleague. I have heard myself say it ten, 15 years ago as to how come we have all these studies, and we do not have any action? Sometimes you need a plan. To build a house, you need a plan. I think it would be fair to say if we had not been in the fiscal difficulties we have been in the last two years, then maybe we would not be in this discussion. Maybe there would have been adequate money for health care, education, and everything else. But the tragedy of being dependent, as much as we are, is that we have a limited amount of ability and control over our fiscal resources.
Mr. Ng, and I do not profess to speak for him, is making a concerted effort to put a long-term plan in place for some major reform in health care that some of us are advocates of, and obviously, you have people who are not. But at the end of the day, I fundamentally believe that he will put into place, a reform package that will be able to bring about reasonable and adequate health care for northerners. That is certainly his objective in my discussion with him on the fiscal side. He is working under extremely difficult conditions. Of course, he has been subject to cuts that I have had to impose, the same as other Ministers have. I understand the concern of my colleague a lot more than what he thinks. Thank you.