Thanks to the Minister for the explanation. I heard an awful lot of we can and we could and we might and some things that are recognized that we have to do. There’s a lot of if we do this and if we do that. I guess my question is, we recognize, I think, as Members that there are things that must be done. The Minister has elaborated on quite a number of things that need to be done. For Stanton and for the Beaufort-Delta authorities, we know that their budgets need to be amended and need to be changed. My question was more to are we doing that. What are we doing? When are we going to have it done? I didn’t hear a lot of definite actions in the Minister’s answer.
In terms of reforming governance, you know, of the procurement, the back office administration, a lot of that has been in the works for awhile, I think, and I certainly agree that amending governance is
definitely going to take a bit of work. Not everybody is going to agree right off the bat, but when push comes to shove, if we, as the funder, don’t have the money and we have to create these economies of scale in order to properly fund health authorities, then we may have to make the hard decisions and say this is how it will be. Not all authorities will agree, but at some point in time we have to, as a government and as Members, bite the bullet and make the hard decisions. I’m not so sure that I heard that in the Minister’s answer. I guess I would like to sort of ask the same question again.
I realize there are things that need to be done. The Minister has mentioned a whole bunch of them, but are those things happening now or are they simply things that we want to do at some point in the future? If that’s the case, when are we going to see some major change and some efficiencies in the way we fund these two health authorities? Thank you.