Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Obviously, it would be beneficial to a particular Member to have copies of this transfer agreement, so that we know who is responsible for what. I only found out, for instance, the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk has the most, whereby they are requesting a transfer of health and social services to the hamlet, but that is all I know. I do not know what the public knows either about what is involved in the transfer agreements, for instance, who is going to be totally responsible for health. Will it be the hamlet, the boards or the
department? After awhile my concern would be, not so much at this point in time, what the department is willing to transfer, but my concern is more to the affect that we do not seem to have it straightened out at the regional board level as to how to address all of the problems and concerns we are talking about transferring services down further to the smaller communities. I am not sure whether this will create more problems than we already have in this point of time. This is why I am asking questions as to whether or not there is, for instance, a time line, on a trial basis we would transfer something and then review the agreement or the transfer after six months or a year to see how effective it is. I have concerns even with that because it seems when a department transfers something, they never take it back no matter how bad it is doing. I have problems with that too. The other concern I have is, every time we transfer something, we transfer less money than we would have used to do it ourselves. There again, I have a concern in that we are going to transfer responsibilities to the communities without sufficient funding. We are almost dooming them to failure.