Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for that response. We’re looking at $27 million, Mr. Chair. I think it gets to the point in terms of investing in the personnel, the staff and whatnot in a facility in the North, this would be a very significant contribution to employment in the North as these amounts go up. I’m not hearing opportunities for it to go down. I would say it may be worth, given that we get tax returns and so on, at some point figuring out where does it become feasible to entertain a northern facility even with all the staff involved and so on. So, I just throw that out. I heard your discussion and I heard those responses. I appreciate the Department of Health and Social Services is always looking at this. I would say look at it with the big picture on what benefits and real costs and returns we would get from having a facility that could help out here in the North. I myself had a constituent returned from the South to a facility in Hay River, which has eased things for the family in my constituency. I know there is also the human side to this, of course. I will leave it at that.
Bob Bromley on Committee Motion 103-17(5): Concurrence Of Td 205-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 5, 2014-2015, Carried
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Committee Motion 103-17(5): Concurrence Of Td 205-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 5, 2014-2015, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
March 8th, 2015
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