I don’t know if it’s subject to approval of the House. The department has already signed it, so that’s neither here nor there.
You know, what we are talking about today is a capital expense of a substantial amount of money. I, too, like Mrs. Groenewegen, would like to hear from the Minister, whether it’s the Minister of Finance or the Minister of Health, what equipment can possibly be migrated from the current clinics over to the new clinic. Are we are going to be buying everything new? What are we going to do with the old equipment? Is it possible we could sell some of the old equipment?
It was just four years ago that we spent close to half a million dollars on Great Slave Medical House. I know it was federal dollars, but that doesn’t make it okay to spend money that is not going to have much utility to us if we are shortly signing a lease and moving to a consolidated clinic downtown.
Now, I am supportive of the consolidated clinic. I think it’s a move in the right direction, but the right steps have to be followed in order for that to happen. I don’t know. Again, I have some concern over the fact that the lease was signed prior to the Minister coming before the House to get approval for the capital expense on that. I am not sure why the Minister wouldn’t tell us where it is. I am not sure why that’s a big secret, Mr. Chairman.