Thank you, Mr. Chairman. At the standing committee on finance, we had some concern about a senior citizens' facility which is to be completed this year in Fort Franklin, with a second facility being planned for Fort Norman, which is in the same region. It was pointed out that there are numerous regions in the North where there are no senior citizens' facilities. It was not satisfactorily explained at the standing committee on finance how the policy could be applied so that one region would wind up with two facilities when some regions had none. We thought this should be something that was needs-based rather than perhaps a situation that might be politically driven.
Therefore, we wanted to request that, before we were satisfied, if this was something that was really needed we thought that we needed to see a clearly defined policy from the department explaining why this project was needed in this region. In the absence of having seen that, Mr. Chairman, I would like to make a motion.
Motion To Delete Senior Citizen's Facility, Fort Norman, Carried
I move that the 1992-93 capital estimates for the Department of Social Services, under the activity community and family support services, for the project senior citizen's facility, Fort Norman, in the amount of $15,000, be deleted.