Certainly, if we were a writer, I guess, and more willing, we would have, but you were on our side, so we really couldn’t move this here now that you’re on the other side there and moving this infrastructure budget for next year. I’d like to, I guess, just make some points here. Maybe the Minister, then, can help me here.

We have facilities that are used for this type of situation in the North here. So is that going to happen to all our facilities when people then start wanting to build around our facilities, that we’ve got to put up security fences, or next year or another couple years, five years, will there be another fence saying, well, we’ve got to do this Fort Smith or Hay River or here for security fences for the reasons that you stated to me in this House here?

I imagine that Corrections Canada made a lot of recommendations. Maybe this one popped out because of the residential lots that will be going next to the jail. Who knew that six years ago? Where is the responsibility to the developer who’s developing these residential lots, knowing that they’re building next to a territorial inmate

corrections facility? Now, where is the responsibility of the residential developer saying, well, because we’re going to build here and for the appeasement of people to get these houses, this is what we’re going to do. We’ll put the fence up. That may be more of a disincentive for people to say, well, I’m going to pay a little more because I’m going to now have to pay for a share of the costs of the fence. Hey, let’s ask the Department of Justice. Let’s put their arguments here as to why they can put that fence up for us and they can spend $2 million and let them do it. Then we don’t have to and it cuts our costs down for potential residents in that area, still knowing that they’re going to live next to a correctional facility. That, in itself, they have their own reasons for that.

For myself, I’m not too sure. I’m not convinced by the Minister. I know what you’re saying. I’m not yet convinced of this money here on the fencing. Again, I said fencing. Look at child care, daycare homes in our small communities. Look at health centres. Look at putting in RCMP in Colville Lake, Tsiigehtchic or Wrigley. We know the amount of money for infrastructure, but we always seems to have no money. That’s what I’ve been hearing from Justice. We want to have the basic essential services such as a health nurse in our community. We need to accommodate them with having RCMP in our communities, which means infrastructure, but we don’t seem to put that as a priority at this time, because you’re defending a huge amount of money going into the crushing facility here. Any time you have a facility that houses inmates, there is always a high risk because the inmates do not respect the law, respect people. They go through a process. I keep having a hard time to harmonize myself with the Minister to say, yes, this is a good thing, we’re spending good money. At the same time, we’ve been asking for RCMP in Colville Lake, Tsiigehtchic and other small communities with a nurse and we don’t get it. I don’t get it. The Minister has shown me over time, and I thank him, for what it costs to put an RCMP infrastructure facility in the small communities, yet we are going to forego this and put money into fencing off to keep the high-risk offenders from escaping or so they can go into the program. Again, I’m not having a warm feeling over here to that rationale. Again, the Minister made some good points; however, I just don’t buy it right now.