When I became the Minister of Justice I asked the department to do a bit of an analysis and start an analysis on what we think the implications of Bill C-10 will be, and some of those implications could conceivably be increased capacity requirements in our different facilities, a new pod possibly, the adult facility here in Yellowknife, but also the facility in Fort Smith which is already designed to be a little bit larger than the facility that is there now, as well as the old female facility in Inuvik.

As far as the costs of the facilities, Mr. Bromley, anything we toss out now will be kind of a real shot in the dark. We have some Class C estimates on the Fort Smith facility which is around $35 million. The cost to expand the North Slave Correctional Facility – and I would be happy to take you out there if you haven’t already had a tour – there is actually an area on the North Slave Correctional Facility where we can add a pod. It was always designed with the ability to add a pod, should the capacity requirements ever increase at the North Slave Correctional Facility. Those plans are in the pipe. We know what we have to do to increase that, but I can’t tell you what the cost of adding that pod would be right now.

The department is doing some analysis as part of their analysis of the impacts of Bill C-10 which will hopefully have some of that information, but we haven’t been able to absolutely quantify that yet. But we know the Class C estimate for the facility in Fort Smith is around $35 million.