Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as Mr. Bell indicates, we, as well, are of the strong and continued opinion that the 1-800 number is an effective tool and would work and was planned to work very closely in conjunction with the book we handed out today. We intend to do two things. We have some signals from the federal government through their primary health care transition fund. They are interested in seeing if we can pursue this initiative in conjunction with Nunavut and Yukon, which was in one of our initial thoughts, but the logistics struck us early on as somewhat too daunting. The need was to try to get a system up and running. So we are going to go back and explore that particular option. As well, we intend to try again to build this particular action item into our business plan. It came in significantly over budget, about five or six times over budget, so there are two problems there. Maybe our estimations were overly optimistic and the cost to do this to the level we deemed necessary, we budgeted about a quarter million and the lowest proposal I believe was $1.4 million. So we didn't have the funds to proceed. We had to put that particular action item aside and move forward, but it's something we would still like to proceed with. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Bill 3: Appropriation Act, 2003-2004
In the Legislative Assembly on February 17th, 2003. See this statement in context.
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Bill 3: Appropriation Act, 2003-2004
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 16th, 2003
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