Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member is correct, the health and social services department and Yellowknife Health and Social Services in particular had an interest in exploring the possibility of using Somba K'e as a child welfare facility. We currently have some funds in the capital plan to upgrade the current facility and territorial treatment centre, but it seemed very old and possibly not worth fixing and the money possibly better invested elsewhere. We did have some discussions with the Housing Corporation and the Somba K'e board. We did some preliminary assessments with Public Works and other technical people. The indications were that it would cost more money than we had in our budget to upgrade the building to make it acceptable by Canadian standards for the specific needs we had in mind for a child welfare facility. So at this point, Health and Social Services is not an active player in the future of Somba K'e. The building is under the care and custody of the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 269-14(6): Somba K'e Treatment Facility
In the Legislative Assembly on June 6th, 2003. See this statement in context.
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Question 269-14(6): Somba K'e Treatment Facility
Item 6: Oral Questions
June 5th, 2003
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