Mr. Chairman, I understand how the process works, but as my other colleagues have indicated, it's the Department of Health that deals with the formula funding for the hospital for Inuvik.
Now, surely your department must have got advice from whoever is building that new section, what the costs are going to be for O and M for a year. I'm not so sure how the formula funding pertaining to power and to heating is calculated. I don't know if it's square footage times so much fuel per square foot equals a figure and this is what you get for a year, or...I know normally what they do is they take the square footage and they multiply and they get a number. Obviously, the department has miscalculated and I'm surprised the board itself has not picked up the shortfall that has been calculated for them, saying this is your budget for this year and now after a full year of operation, they have to come back to you because the department, with their calculation and their formula financing, wasn't up to par.
Now you have to come back to us, you went back to FMBS and asked for that $1.4 million, or now you're coming here to ask us to approve $1.8 million. There is something wrong. As my colleagues have said, the people that are involved in doing these calculations...I mean, something has to happen. Something went wrong in the system where a figure of this magnitude should not have occurred. The advice that architects or whoever designed this building, in calculating O and M for a full year should have been provided to your department more accurately. It seems to me that this scenario didn't happen. That's why we are in this predicament right now.
Right now we have no choice but to approve it, because it's based on actuals from last year and I'm going to support it. But the point I'm trying to make is that the officials at your department, not your department, Mr. Minister of Finance, but the Department of Health and Social Services that does all the calculation and stuff have to be made aware and put on notice that we are not going to stand for this type of miscalculation in an amount of this magnitude again. Thank you.