Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Department of Health and Social Services of this government provides a budget to the Stanton Hospital based on their projected needs for financial resources. It is in the neighbourhood of $50 million a year. When the board does run into a deficit situation, the cause of that deficit is very carefully analyzed. I think that most people would agree that the people who receive services at Stanton Regional Hospital do receive a very high level of care and service there.

We have a complement of very dedicated specialists, nurses, other health care professionals who work there. It would not be the intention of this government to see those services impacted in a negative way. We have an obligation. We have a statutory obligation to deliver good quality health care services to the people of the North and if there are efficiencies that can be realized without negatively impacting the quality of the services, those are the kinds of things we are looking at when we talk about deficit recovery plans. Thank you.