Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as the Member stated, as a government, we do have to look at the way we spend our dollars. We can quickly spend a lot of money and the millions on a daily basis and seemingly are unable to show where that money goes, because the system as large as it is and the demands for services are never being fully met in the eyes of many of the people we deal with. So it is something we do have to look at: how we spend those dollars, where we spend those dollars and are the programs we have in place today still relevant when we look at the initial drawdown of authority from the federal government. So it is something that we not only have to do within Health and Social Services, but government-wide at some point.
The issue of prevention is, of course, something that, as a government, when you look at the bulk of our expenditures, are in the acute care side or dealing with the aftermath of illness and accidents and self-inflicted wounds in some cases. It is something that we do have to look at. Although, when there is a need to provide a service, we are still going to have to meet that. As the Member stated, the prevention side of things, we are
targeting 1 percent of our expenditures to go towards prevention. The action plan that was put forward last fall is the majority of that action plan is dealing with health promotion and prevention. Thank you, Mr. Chair.