Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Norman Wells health and social services facility has got a substantial completion date in December of 2017, so just right around Christmastime, and it will soon be in operation. The question is what benefits did the Sahtu region get out of this. It was a project that was carried on by a local development corporation and a major contractor, and I can inform this House that, directly through northern and local employment and business of goods and services, $20 million was spent in the North on this project. This is very impressive because this is a very high-level facility, being a health centre, the amount of work that is required to complete a project like this. At the same time, one thing I want to mention about this project as we go forward with our climate change and carbon pricing and such is the interesting thing about this project is we asked the contractor to build to the national energy code, to exceed it by 25 per cent, and, some of the stuff that they have done on this project, it has actually exceeded it by 33 per cent.
Wally Schumann on Question 174-18(3): Benefits To The Sahtu From Construction Of The Sahtu Got'ine Regional Health And Social Services Centre
In the Legislative Assembly on February 27th, 2018. See this statement in context.
Question 174-18(3): Benefits To The Sahtu From Construction Of The Sahtu Got'ine Regional Health And Social Services Centre
Oral Questions
February 26th, 2018
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