Thank you, I want to make one final point in this area and then leave it alone. I do not expect a response, but I think it is a strange message we send when we tell Yellowknife, Hay River, Fort Smith, Inuvik and Fort Simpson that they are going to take a five percent cut across the board this year. They are going to have to somehow maintain the level of service with less money, and if they have problems, they have to eat them by dealing with them internally. Find the money. On one hand we are saying that and on the other hand we are providing a bail out package if there was mismanagement or if we had a rogue SAO not report properly to town council for years and to the department.
I do not know what kind of message it sends to governments who manage responsibly. To me, the message is loud and clear, if you are irresponsible with the money we will give you more. We are awarding SAOs who mismanage. This clearly speaks to some sort of need for a tighter accountability framework. Clearly, it is not one community and who knows where these things could be building.
I do not know why we are not aware of these problems until they are $400,000 problems. I think that we have to deal with some of these situations and deal with them earlier.
If it is a matter of not enough money to a municipality, then we have to deal with that up front. Given that we know that Simpson took a five percent cut this year with the other tax-based municipalities and they have a $642,000 deficit, I would be amazed to see how this formula could possibly provide them any relief. I know that we are not speaking to that here, but that is just the final point I wanted to make.