Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Health and Social Services with regard to my Member’s statement. Like I mentioned, the Joe Greenland Centre, which is a level 3 facility, is now 30 years old. I know that in previous years
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and I’ve been looking through the
capital budgets
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there were dollars allocated to do
a major retrofit on this facility. Now I see it’s nowhere to be seen in the books, yet we’re building new facilities. We’re building dementia centres; we’re building care facilities in the larger centres.
I’d like to ask the Minister where this department is going to ensure that there will be elderly care available to communities so that their elders can
live out their days in their communities without having to fly out of their region and go to regional centres, so that they can be taken care of closer to home, around family members and loved ones.