Certainly this facility would have some attention in terms of the picture the Minister has painted for us here. I want to ask the Minister how long has this type of situation been going with the ration you have here. If this was going on last year, did we have the same type of numbers with the team and the same type of dollars being spent? I can remember since being here and the first time being elected, the communities that were asking for RCMP officers; I think it was around 11 or 12. We haven’t done very much over the last five or six years. So I think this one here has to be looked at carefully in terms of releasing some of these dollars to the communities and having RCMP members present in about 10 or 11 of our communities. So far, we don’t have it here. There is something here that certainly slipped under the radar in terms of efficiencies of government operations, especially with the amount of dollars going each year into a facility and the communities are paying right now by not having members in their communities, but we are always hearing from Justice or government that there is no money, there is no money to be found. I would ask the Minister how long historically has this facility been underutilized and overstaffed?
Norman Yakeleya on Motion 2-16(3): Recommendation To Reinstate $15,000 For Law Bursaries Program Under The Services To Government Activity Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 17th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Motion 2-16(3): Recommendation To Reinstate $15,000 For Law Bursaries Program Under The Services To Government Activity Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 16th, 2009
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