I appreciate the Minister’s point that things change and we can’t predict everything. I realize that contract amounts change, inflation has an impact, but I’m troubled by the way this is presented in that we think we’re going to save money because it looks like we should. I would hope that the Minister, I’m going to ask the Minister, does the department not have a better method of deciding what changes we’re going to make? It sounds to me like, well, this looks like a pretty good idea so let’s just try this one. Surely the Minister should be able to, and the department should be able to, estimate, give or take a certain amount of money, the savings that will be generated by any one of the things that he mentioned relative to medical travel. That’s what I’m looking for, is a general estimate of cost savings relative to this $3.2 million which we’re now using of federal money.
The other point I want to make is, I didn’t hear anything in the Minister’s response to indicate that there’s going to be an evaluation of the changes that we have put in place, or that we are going to be putting in place, to determine whether or not these changes are helping us to reduce costs in medical travel. To those two things: an estimate of savings, is that at all possible from the department, and is the department doing an evaluation of the changes they’ve put in place to determine if they’re good or bad?