I’m appreciative that we’re not drunken sailors and it’s a sobering thought that we’re not.
Again, I don’t want to get into a statistical rampage with the Minister here. Again, I mean, stats-wise they say 42 cents of every tax dollar in Canada is being spent in health, and it’s clear that the NWT is spending well under that. The Minister says 34 cents. I believe that number is relatively lower. If we factor some of the pertinence of real health care, I think the number is probably closer to 27 percent. That said, I’ll have more questions with respect to details in the Health area.
One of the other areas I want to bring up is obviously recurring costs that we see. If you look at from last year’s supplementary to this year’s supplementary, when it comes down to the NWT Housing Corporation, in the opening comments of the Minister, $1.739 million is being mentioned here in the opening comments. This is a sobering number that almost mirrors what we saw last year around the same time of a similar nature. Again, going back to forced growth or making good predictions in budgetary terms, how can numbers like this keep repeating themselves time and time again? Why aren’t they part of the regular budgeting process? Thank you.