Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The magnitude of the numbers is, I am sure, relatively close to what the exact numbers are going to be. Whether we are saving, $300,000, $400,000 or $500,000, there is a significant savings to close this facility. So even if my numbers were wrong, they are not wrong by that amount. The amount of money that's in this year's budget, Mr. Speaker, is $400,000 less than what it would take to keep that section of the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre open. That's what the department has given up. So whether the department is exactly right in the numbers that have been presented or is off by a factor of $2,000, $3,000 or $4,000, isn't really the salient issue here. We have given up $400,000. We can't continue with the operation of that facility without that $400,000; we have given it up in this budget. So the budget that's before the House is giving up that amount of money. We are satisfied that it's relatively close to that amount that we can save through shutting it down. So, again, it's not an issue of whether it's $18,000 for transportation. The issue is how much money are we going to save? We are saying we can save $400,000, Mr. Speaker. We believe that that's the magnitude of the savings.
Charles Dent on Question 492-15(3): Closure Of The South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Remand Unit
In the Legislative Assembly on February 25th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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