Mr. Chairman, no, we do not have a debt reduction plan for each authority because we do not consider this debt as being an authority debt. We have been saying that for three years. We consider this as a system debt. We are making systematic changes through Foundation for Change. We believe that we need to make systematic changes to make sure that each authority has the right budget, that they do things without duplication, that they are a better transition of services and patients across the authorities.

Right now we have some authorities that are having a surplus and some that are in deficit...

I believe by and large we do a lot of that already. Healthy Choices Framework, the Strategic Initiatives committee money. There are a number of examples we could give the Member where Education, Culture and Employment and their schools, and MACA, and Health and Social Services work together, especially working with children in our communities. I know of many, many examples where our community health reps and health staff go to schools. As the Member knows, in Fort Resolution, for example, the school there is just a beautiful example of where the teachers and the health care professionals are...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As far as I’m aware, we don’t have one airline that we use. We use all airlines available. Canadian North just instituted morning flights for four mornings out of the week. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The issues that the Member is mentioning here are a part of the review, so we expect to have the review done by the end of this fiscal year and to be able to bring forward to the standing committee for discussion with recommendations following that in April or May. Thank you.

We are far from rolling with the punches. This is something that occupies us 24 hours a day. I’m going to get the deputy minister to give a full detail of the actions we are taking. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Member’s comment. I don’t think anything he says precludes the debate that I said that was required.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think I’m going to have to do a better breakdown and get back to you, but the hospital block funding includes doctors working in those health centres and other services we provide. I’m going to get Mr. Elkin to explain.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The flexibility that the Member is suggesting would be a policy change and I think what we need is we want to be clear about our policies. If we want to change the policy, we should change them. Adding a flexibility makes it too difficult for staff in the system to administer.

What the Member is speaking to is a compassionate medical escort and a compassionate escort is not provided for under our policy. We are reviewing our Medical Travel Policy right now including an escort issue, because we are inundated every day with families who would like us to assist more. We as...

Wow. Let me just be brief. I guess just one reason, as I stated earlier, is that given the discussions we’ve had over the last two or three years, we were told clearly that the Supplementary Health Benefits Policy that was approved, but not in effect yet, should be rescinded. We did that. A core part of that policy was an income threshold which, in turn, determined a group of people that we considered to be working poor. We were told, in no uncertain terms, that our public does not want us to determine health benefits by income. So that’s where we are.

As I stated earlier, we are following and...

We are working toward right sizing the budget for the eight authorities and we will be making recommendations on how we do that going forward. I do take the Member’s point and appreciate it. Thank you.