Okay. Then on one hand you’ll say that it’s better to have local programming even though it may be a lot of money, but we don’t know this for sure, of course. Yet, on the other hand, you’d say we’d like to see our money spent specifically to help people. I mean, quite often I’ve heard calls for on-the-land programs, but yet the first answer is we don’t have any money. What I’m asking for is what harm has it done to do an analysis to ask ourselves the cost of running – and I’m talking about the smaller type of facilities where we only have a couple of inmates potentially, be it now or certainly in the short term – to ask ourselves the question, which is why would we allow a facility to run in a manner that we’re not spending our money efficiently. I mean, many times I’ve heard my colleague from the Sahtu say, look, all we need is a couple hundred thousand dollars. We can put a camp in some community. We can get people out on the land. He talks about a better way that they could connect with both their culture, their spirit, get away from some of the troubles and refocus in on the important values of life. I couldn’t agree with him more. But yet, every year, time after time the answer always is we do not have any money. We like your concept but never have any money.
Here I’m providing an option and providing a suggestion that an analysis could ask ourselves are we running our facilities efficiently. On one hand, we’ll hear, well, we have a mandate but there’s no, you know, culture programs. It’s like you’re using that as the wedge item. There are a lot of things to consider and I recognize that. I think that a cost-benefit analysis would ask ourselves what makes sense. When we have one colleague will say this is a better way to connect with our constituents in a
culture-based way, you know, you can’t use it against us one day and then use it for us the next. I’m asking what would stop the department from asking themselves, through a cost-benefit analysis how do we evaluate good use of money. We often heard from this Member many times on this side of the House about efficient use of money. Has that changed now that he’s a Minister? Thank you.