Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is there -- I appreciate where the Minister's coming from, and there's always going to be a push and pull between the -- or the demand for services versus what the government can realistically provide. But when we have our auditors telling us that take a look at how we're spending health dollars because it's unsustainable and it's, you know, causing the government -- the government's public accounts to teeter on a knife's edge, that's a problem that we need to solve.

So is the Minister willing to look at different models of governance for the authorities that would allow more closer scrutiny -- or sorry, more control and accountability and transparency and more action directly from the Minister over the operation of the system? Thank you.