Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we devolve a lot of the governance and delivery of services for health and social services to the boards. We think that the boards are in a good position to identify to us efficiencies that may make sense, that would not create undue hardship for their constituents.

The kinds of things that we would identify that would be unavoidable kinds of costs would be things like forced growth that would be beyond the direct control of the board, one-time extraordinary costs. Over-expenditures within the control or the discretion of the board would be something that we would look at. Also, if the board has changes in anticipated revenue or changes in anticipated access to the services, those are all things that we would take into consideration when considering any specific initiatives that we have brought forward.

The department does work very closely with the boards, although they do have a board support unit within the department that works very closely with the boards to help them put these kinds of things together. Thank you.