Thank you. We recognize that part of the issue in some of the authorities is the result of just not having the right budgeting for some. For some it’s the costs of doing business the way that each of the authorities do their business, bringing locums in from across the country. So as we move towards dealing with a governance issue at the health and social services authority and trying to change the way we manage our physician resources across the territory, trying to bring the physician resources to the Northwest Territories, we’re hoping to address these issues.

So I’ll just read some of the stuff that we’re doing. We’re continuing to work with individual health and social services authorities to get a clearer picture of the trends and the pressures. We’ll eliminate the ability to retain surpluses and then require that surpluses be reallocated so that we get a balance. Although the authorities are in deficits, they will not always all be in deficit. At some point some were in deficit, some had surpluses and were able to do reallocation.

We have taken the first steps towards the back office approach of financial management, which will allow the authorities to share resources to move to a common financial system. That was another thing

that we found was a bit of an issue, was that everybody was off creating their own financial systems and we’d be doing it leaner, and probably more efficiently, if we just had the one system. As a first step we’re implementing a shared procurement approach that would have the common accounts receivable right across the entire system. So we think there are some savings there, as well, where we would all do our procurement. All, not us I suppose, but all of the health and social services authorities, including Stanton, would be doing the joint procurement. Then maybe we’ll have better ability to bulk purchase as one example of a way of saving in the future.

So we’re looking at things differently in many areas with a goal of reducing these ongoing deficits that have been going on for many, many years.