Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In my opening comments I talked about areas we should have been able to predict that there would be some costs. I know it would be difficult, but I think that in the areas of providing funding for services incurred outside of the Northwest Territories, that $5.1 million, also the increased costs resulting of the finalization of the new physician contract, the $1.2 million for supp health, the increased costs associated with requirements for children residing in residential care outside the Territories, those are things that I mean, the physician negotiations we know are coming. Granted, we don’t know what the results are going to be, but it is an area that if we do forecasting and some projections we should be able to come up with some idea of...Even if we are low, it is better than coming forward with the full amount later, in my opinion.
You are asking for recommendations from us. Do some forecasting. Do some projections. Try and get as close as you reasonably can, knowing that in both, all four of these areas, it is probably
impossible to get a bang-on totally accurate total, but put money in the budget instead of coming back for a supp.
The supp you are asking for here, $10.8 million for Health? That is bigger than our whole supp reserve fund. That one department just took the whole reserve fund right there. It is gone. I think there should be some expectation on the departments to do some forecasting, modelling and projections on the areas of known expense in every one of these four. I would find it unbelievable if the department totally had no clue that these things would be coming. This is more of a comment. I think we should do some more forecasting.