Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, last May, I got a commitment in this House from the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Brendan Bell, to revisit the decision to close the remand centre in the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre, in the community of Hay River, to see if the projected savings would be realized. The Minister also stated that he had instructed the RCMP, and the department, to keep tabs on the additional costs that transporting remand prisoners to Yellowknife would result in. We are now five months past that commitment, and I am wondering if the Minister could provide the House with the status of how that monitoring is going. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Jane Groenewegen on Question 294-15(4): Monitoring The Impacts Of The Closure Of The Hay River Remand Centre
In the Legislative Assembly on October 27th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Question 294-15(4): Monitoring The Impacts Of The Closure Of The Hay River Remand Centre
Item 7: Oral Questions
October 26th, 2005
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