Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Minister going into my next question, although he didn't really answer the investment of $500,000 into a new facility that could help supplement the needs that we must be directly sending these people for. I think the Minister referenced it in such a way that really we are sending these people south for some reason, because obviously they are not being treated in Hay River for another reason, and the Hay River facility, the way I understand it, unless it has been clearly referenced in a different context, must be suiting and serving different needs. So from looking at this as brush strokes, why are we not investing that $500,000 into the Hay River facility, at least keeping our citizens north? When will I see that initiative of the shifted dollars being invested in a territorial sense rather than sending people south? Because running a facility at 25 to 30 percent, if I was running a business, I think I would be running myself into the ground. Just referencing that, when will I see the shift of those types of dollars to the Hay River facility, to supplement that failing grade of occupancy?
Robert Hawkins on Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 23rd, 2004. See this statement in context.
Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 23rd, 2004
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