Currently all of our authorities are running deficits and this is something that’s been ongoing for a couple of years. We believe by sharing and collaborating on things like procurement and physician services, IT/IS/IM, some financial aspects, we’ll be able to coordinate efforts across the territory and have a more responsive, streamlined approach. But at the end of the day, as I said two days ago now, our focus is on the care that the patients receive and we want to make sure that our patients have a seamless flow through the system. We’ve all heard people talking about how frustrated they are coming from one authority and trying to gain services in another authority, so like from the Dehcho to Stanton. We’ve created these silos, these independent authorities and our patients can sort of bump up against the structures that we’ve created and we want to have a seamless approach.

Having said that, we absolutely recognize and we want to continue to have regional functions as far as advisory capacity at a regional level, so like an advisory board or something, advisory council. We’re still working out the details on those types of things. We are going to work with the current structures that exist. We’re going to work with Aboriginal governments, community governments, Members and everybody to try to find a solution for improving the health system to benefit all people of the Northwest Territories.