Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Again, I find it hard to accept that the net savings is $400,000 per year. When I have asked how that number was arrived at in relation to transportation costs, the deployment of RCMP to escort prisoners and the cost of providing the service in Yellowknife, I have not gotten those answers. I have been waiting since question period on Friday to get statistics about utilization numbers and those numbers still haven't been provided.

If these closures were carefully analyzed prior to these decisions being made, then those numbers should be readily available. So, Mr. Speaker, it's a cop-out on the part of the Minister to tell the media yesterday that my statements in this House are because I am unhappy and angry with the cuts in my constituency.

That goes without saying and it's beside the point, Mr. Speaker. The point is I want answers to reasonable questions and it's my job to ask them. Unless we have entered a new era of unaccountable and non-transparent government, it's his job to answer those questions. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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