Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to thank the Member for complimenting the people here with me, as they have worked hard to prepare the documents now and the main estimate the Member uses. As well, I would like to inform the Member I have been referring to the opening remarks I have made and I actually thanked my people here with me because they have worked hard to make sure I had the information to go over and make myself very familiar with this. So it is a team effort. Like what I have been saying about the process we are going to go in, it's a team effort.
The grants and contributions area that the Member has raised -- and I believe he's referring to the summary of the main estimates document -- that funding goes to health boards, education boards, through block funding to municipal governments. That funding, a very large amount of that, goes directly to providing frontline services to individuals in the territory. So Stanton Health Board, Inuvik Regional Health Board, the Sahtu one that is being created, that is going to frontline workers in hospitals and health care workers, social workers, education authorities are getting those dollars, municipal governments are getting transferred those amounts through block funding arrangements. So a lot of that is in there.
In the area of losing some critical programs, unfortunately, because of our situation, as departments review their funding allotments, they are going to have to look at the programs they deliver and some of those are going to be offered up as potential areas of savings. Any reduction of programs is going to affect residents in a way that is not liked and won't be supported by those individuals or groups that see those reductions. But, unfortunately, that is where we are today; having to face those kinds of decisions and going forward. In fact, we are going to be facing more of those. Thank you.