Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the Member for that question.
There are three different pieces to that answer. Number one would be the refocus that we place, from a corporate perspective, on providing support to the districts as well as to the LHOs. One of the things that we’ve done through the reorganization is to try and put our corporate focus more on our clients and more on the organizations that really serve the people of the NWT, the LHOs and the folks in the community.
With that, what our reorganization is attempting to do, or is endeavouring to do, is to provide for a refocus of our efforts into the district office to provide improved support, particularly in the financial area. That’s number one.
Number two, we will be providing private LHO audits to the LHOs. As Mr. Krutko has pointed out, it is a challenge to recruit folks that are skilled as auditors, but in the case of the LHOs we’ll be undertaking private audits on the LHOs.
The third piece — and one that I had mentioned yesterday — is in the case of those two individuals that have been providing us with audit service up to now. While we had originally looked to those folks being transferred over to the Audit Bureau, we’ve been able to identify other roles for them in the corporation while still attaining our reduction goals,
so we’ve been able to retain their skill sets in the organization.
And perhaps just as important as their skill sets is the history that they’ve got in undertaking audits. They’re going to continue to be within the financial area. We intend to continue to use those folks for information as we undertake improved financial controls with the LHOs and with the district offices.
Those are the three main pieces. The fourth piece, as well, is we will continue to work with our colleagues within GNWT at the Audit Bureau. I continue to work with them on identifying other options that may be available to us to coordinate our efforts.