Mr. Chair, in the areas we see the asks here with respect to children in
southern placement and adults in southern placement, we have asked for money in the ‘14-15 budget which has been moved forward, added to the base so that we don’t have to come back for as large of supps in the future, but the Member does raise a good point. Having said that, the individuals that are in these southern placements are usually high needs individuals with a range of conditions. I have asked the department to do a file review of all the individuals, recognizing that many of them are very complex and we don’t have the capacity to support them, to see if there are any similar or like clients with the same type of needs. If there’s an opportunity for us to repatriate any of them through, as you said, maybe a facility, it might be cheaper to bring a group of people with similar needs back to the North and support them in the North closer to their homes. We are doing that review to see if there are any opportunities there. It’s going to take a while because each file is so different and so unique, but I will keep the committee posted as we move forward. If we do find an opportunity there to repatriate a block based on similar needs, we will certainly be coming to committee for some further discussion.