Thank you. This is a long-standing issue as well. The health budget is the largest budget in the territorial government and it’s the fastest growing. We put in millions, tens of millions of dollars a year in dealing with a lot of the damages caused by alcohol and alcohol abuse. So from a political optics point of view, I know the discussion has been there that we should take the money from liquor proceedings, fines and those types of things, to put them towards a special fund. That discussion is going to be ongoing, but at this point the money goes into consolidated general revenue and we continue to spend, as this House will know from the number of supplementary appropriations we do for health, significant amounts of our money on health care, most of it tied or a good chunk of it tied to the issues related to alcohol abuse. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 950-17(5): Crime And Bootlegging In NWT Communities
In the Legislative Assembly on October 7th, 2015. See this statement in context.
Question 950-17(5): Crime And Bootlegging In NWT Communities
Oral Questions (Reversion)
October 6th, 2015
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