Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, in the previous government, as with this government, I've been very careful to say that the health transformation is not about reducing costs of the healthcare system. But, absolutely, we anticipate we're going to find some efficiencies, whether it's through purchasing, purchasing together, we're going to be able to share some finance services, you know, cross-training.
We absolutely anticipate efficiencies, but we don't anticipate dropping the budget as a result. One of our priorities is actually to do some deficit recovery. Currently, the eight authorities combined have almost $50 million in deficit, so we have to build in our deficit and recovery into our plan. We're hoping to use some of the efficiencies that we attain to help offset some of our costs which means, ultimately, once we've reduced our deficit, we should be able to have some additional dollars to invest in healthcare. But I don't anticipate dropping the budgets in these areas immediately or at all.