Mr. Chair, first of all, the Financial Management Board has approved the change to the Surplus Deficit Policy for the authorities, so authorities now have a very limited cap of how much of a surplus they can accumulate. That will prevent the situation that the Member is concerned about from occurring.
Secondly, we continue to work with the authorities on the analysis of their structural deficits. We have been coming forward piece by piece for base adjustments to address those deficits. You have seen some of that money in this year’s budget. We are working with the authorities on, as the Minister said, a plan to right-size the budgets we hope within a period of five years through the sustainability initiatives the Minister has mentioned, through increases to the Canada Health Transfer that we will be in a situation where authorities are appropriately funded.