Mr. Chairman, the math still doesn’t really work for me. I know the Minister has committed to getting back together with the Social Programs Committee to go over the situation at Stanton. I think the sooner that happens the better, so we can try to figure out what is happening there and what is going to be the course for the future.
I agree with my colleague, Mr. Abernethy: I don’t want to see people affected out there. I don’t want to see services reduced. I want to see us funding that hospital to the level where it’s supposed to be funded and finding out what that is.
Mr. Chairman, it’s kind of ironic that when the department went out and did the zero-based review and came back with its initial findings of that zero-based review, it’s shortly thereafter that we learned the hospital hasn’t paid its payroll in six and a half months. That’s $26 million. The last question I have for the Minister is: if they’re not paying the $2 million every two weeks — and that’s what the payroll is every two weeks at that hospital — what are they doing with the money? Where is that money going?