Madam Chair, we’re not actually talking about amalgamating boards, we’re talking about creating a central approach, a unified approach to providing health and social services and having shared functions coordinated across all the entities, possibly with a central territorial body that would be more of a virtual organization. It doesn’t really need to be located in one particular area and it could have individuals

from what are all the authorities now participating. We’re not talking about amalgamation. We know and we believe, and I believe, that there still needs to be regional entities providing advice and guidance on the provision of services, but we do need to find a way to have a territorial approach to some of the back office stuff and standards so that we can set standards of care for all residents of the Northwest Territories, and our patients can have a seamless flow through the system and not experience barriers that we’ve created by design.