I appreciate the Minister’s comments. I’ll make sure that I get her a copy of the deck that she presented to the Standing Committee on Social Programs that day so that she has a copy of that. That was about 18 months ago. What I’m getting at is when the Minister talked about running an efficient and effective health care system here in the Northwest Territories, in my mind if we run enough deficits at some of our authorities to the magnitude that they currently are in, then are we managing and effectively utilizing the dollars that we have if those deficits are being allowed to build up like they are. In my mind, we’re missing something here. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t understand why, if we continue to bleed red ink in the authorities, why we don’t look at amalgamating all of the authorities and bringing them all under one roof so that we can better

manage the growing expenditures in health care. It doesn’t make sense to have so many moving parts out there.

It’s nice to have control at the community level, Mr. Chairman, but I think we can have community input, we can have advisory boards at the community level, but the financial management and the financial control of what little health dollars we have has to be managed by one place. Not by eight, by one. I think unless we take that big step and do that, I think we’re going to continue on a yearly basis to be fighting about deficits at the various authorities. There has to be more accountability and responsibility taken when you’re talking about millions of dollars.

You’re right, Madam Minister, you can’t just wipe out $30 million all out once, but you know what you can do is come back time and time again to this House, a few million here, a few million there, to wipe out the deficits. That’s what’s been the practice of the government when it comes to dealing with deficits at the authorities. They come back through supplementary appropriation to this House time and time again and, Mr. Chairman, it’s not getting any better. So again, the question I have for the Minister is: is the department truly moving towards amalgamating those authorities, bringing them back under one roof so that we can better manage what we have? It makes no sense to continue down the path that we’ve been going down, Mr. Chairman, because it’s not working. Thank you.