Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, all of the boards currently have contribution agreements from which they are working. The area of uncertainty is surrounding the deficits which have come to light in the past fiscal year. These are all being worked on and attempting to be addressed under the current policy that exists for deficit recovery.

Where the boards have been able to provide clear information and an indication that the costs are associated with forced growth and costs that are outside of their control, there have already been approvals made in some instances and money extended to these boards. In areas where there is still some uncertainty surrounding them, that there is not a clear plan of action with respect to the deficits.

As to how we prepared the estimates for our department in view of this particular information which is not available at this time, I am going to ask Mr. St. Germaine if he would respond to how we developed our main estimates. Thank you.