Thank you. As the Member knows, this has been consulted, and studied, and analysed. We have the final proposal out here, Mr. Speaker. My preference is to work with the Members and see how to make this workable. There was a question about the fact that MLA Abernethy raised, and I think MLA Groenewegen raised it too, we don’t want to have a system where everybody dumps their insurance. The program as it exists now, because we cover universally to anybody who is over 60 or with a chronic condition, we have a system where everybody drops their health insurance. We have one of the lowest rates of personal insurance holders in the country. The fact is, you know, we do income tax for all other essential programs in this government. Not housing perhaps, but we have income support, we have rental subsidies, fuel subsidies, we test the income on seniors’ fuel, Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of essential programs in this government already that we income test because resources are limited.

The fact of the matter is, we have a program where we are encouraging people not to insure. The last thing is this is the only thing where people could actually go elsewhere to get help before they come

to the government, which you can’t say about lots of government programs that the government has to offer. Thank you.