Thank you, Mr. Chair. Admittedly, my understanding of why the health authority is able to run a deficit in the first place is not fully understood. Are there any plans to simply not allow them to run a deficit and then, if they needed to, come back through a supplementary appropriation process so that there is a little bit more ongoing tracking to this House? When they wrack up debt, it's not like it's a different debt; it's still the GNWT being held, and I think, at one point, we are probably going to have a conversation about whether that $120 million of debt is written off and brought into the GNWT. I do not really see the point in making them pay it off. I would like them to get to zero and adding to it. Is it possible, or is there a reason that health authorities have to be able to run deficits and we cannot simply let them rely on the supplementary appropriation process like every other department? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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