This is another capital investment in my riding — it’s at North Slave Correctional Centre.

I guess I am, by default, the MLA for a lot of the inmates at that centre. I do receive a number of calls from inmates that are incarcerated there. One of the things they always talk to me about is the fact they don’t have enough in terms of programming on the rehabilitation side, and they could use more work in that area.

The majority of the inmates at North Slave Correctional Centre are of aboriginal descent. I believe we should be doing more to try to rehabilitate them, to give them the necessary tools as to why they are incarcerated so they don’t end up back at North Slave Correctional Centre and phoning me about programs that aren’t there and help that’s not there when they need it.

I do appreciate what my colleague Mr. McLeod is saying and others who are looking at deleting this amount. But for me, it’s an important area. It’s one I think we should be spending more time and effort. It’s going to take some resources as well to do this. This is a start, and we’ll have to see.

I’m going to have to vote against the motion.