This is a really sizeable amount of money, $17 million. I want to know: are there any intermediate steps that would be taken when you’re heading down this path to a $17 million deficit, where at some point somebody might say, “We’re in trouble here” and take some intervention steps to do some analysis along the way as opposed to trying to sort this out afterward, this far into deficit? It just seems like it’s a little too much after the fact. Sometimes with health authority boards there has been a necessity in the past to step into the situation. The Minister will take on a role of appointing a public administrator to deal with situations when things seem like they are going off the rails to the point where the system is under this kind of pressure and there’s this kind of exposure of public funds in public facilities and public programming.

I guess I’m concerned about how far down this path we are right now. Weren’t there some warning signs going off quite a while ago? This total amount came about as quite a surprise to me when we were actually starting to learn of the magnitude of it. I want to know what policies are in place to make some kind of an intervention before things get to this state.