The Member is correct. We need to make sure we have a plan that includes an exit strategy and that we use these dollars to help improve the system and put structures in place that will control things that the federal government will require. As I said, in the budget address by the federal government, they identified the $7 million over three years for new targeted and time-limited fund to increase health services in the three territories in priority health areas and to reduce reliance on outside health care systems and medical travel. These are the parameters. We will get more detail and as we get more detail, we will sit down with the Finance Minister to figure out how we put in a plan and what programs we move forward with that will meet the targets that they have recognizing that anything we do cannot become part of the base.

It is time limited with the purpose of improving our services in the long term. We need to have a plan, otherwise they won’t give us the money. We need to make sure there’s an exit strategy or they won’t give us the money. I’m confident that we can do this.

This THSSI funding seemed to drag out from the THAF days to the THSSI days and they always said you need an exit strategy. A lot of work was done, but as far as having a comprehensive exit strategy to get away from those dollars, it wasn’t done to the degree that maybe would have been appropriate.