The Member is exactly speaking the challenge of delivering health care services. I should point out that having vacancies in some of these authorities, especially the Beaufort-Delta, does not mean they shouldn’t have a deficit. In fact, the authorities will tell you having vacancies may increase their cost of operating because having locums or agency nurses or somebody else coming to field those positions often costs more. So having vacancies doesn’t mean that you have

money holding there not being spent. It’s most often the opposite.

I do agree with Members that we can’t run the health and social services system saying we have to balance the budget at all costs and we aren’t running it that way, but at the same time we know that in order for us to make sure that our people are provided with essential health and social service programs, we need to find efficiencies or system changes wherever necessary to make sure that we maximize the value of our health care dollar, and that’s what we are trying to do under program review. Thank you.