Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I was not here I don't believe when that happened with the young offenders' centre and if there was an uproar then, and there should be an uproar now, two wrongs don't make it right. It was wrong then, it's wrong now and I don't think that justifies the Minister's move on this thing.

My point is we can't do that. It's not a proper expenditure in decision-making of government money. The Minister stated some of the reasons why the young offenders' centre had to be moved here. There are, so far, no reasons given whatsoever why it is better to use the Hay River centre over Yellowknife's centre. In fact, the documents that Minister Miltenberger gave us yesterday state in a briefing note how there are serious concerns about availability of a program. Now two buildings are almost as old as each other. They are almost both 40 years old. There is no reason for this, other than a political move and that cannot be condoned because that can happen to anyone in this Assembly, and I don't think that's a fair thing. I don't think the people out there want us to make decisions about their tax dollars and their capital budget in this way. I think the Minister is probably already aware that there is in the Financial Administration Manual a rule on the budget adjustments and transfers, and it states very specifically there that a department is not allowed to change capital projects that are over $100,000 or 20 percent of the total budget without telling the MLAs or standing committees, and this was not done.

I'm not even talking about just the change here on June 1st, which is three months after we approved our budget. I'm talking about if they were going to not spend $2.1 million, they had an entire year. It was not until November that they decided that they were not going to spend that money in Yellowknife. That is nine months after we approved that budget. There was no indication whatsoever to any of the Members of Yellowknife, the community affected or MLAs affected or their committee. So what remedy is there for the Minister? I think the Minister owes us an apology to start with for having violated the Financial Administration Manual and he should at least accept that there is something wrong with this process. Thank you.