Mr. Speaker, this whole Assembly decides, whenever we pass our budget, just how we deliver services in our communities. One of the things that we heard for many years was that communities needed to make their own decisions more often, much like tax-based municipalities do. So the New Deal that was established that is now into, I believe, its third or fourth year of delivery, that allows communities to make decisions. When you look at base-plus funding, that was incorporated in that so that it helped the smaller communities be able to deal with some of the higher cost issues and you look at our health care services, again that’s another initiative. Members have that information before them as we go forward.

I think that I’d be concerned if we were to come up with one policy fits all. We say that we’re unique when it comes to the Canadian institution and that

needs to be recognized; well, we need to recognize that too. I’m sure there’s a way of coming forward with a process much like we did in our capital planning process that lays out the issue of need, of population, of safety and affordability as ways of gauging just what we could afford to do in all of our communities. Thank you.