Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Does the committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you. We will commence then with a break. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Abernethy.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. What’s the wish of the committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Abernethy.

If I were the Minister of Health and Social Services and I were managing a department in the Northwest Territories that did not have a single youth treatment for drug and alcohol addiction bed available, I would be all over the Hay River hospital idea. I would like to ask the Minister if he would commit today to at least examine that possibility of re-profiling what will be the former Hay River hospital in three years’ time as a youth treatment centre.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Abernethy.

The current Hay River hospital was built in two stages. There’s a much older wing and then there is a much newer part, which was very modern and cutting edge in its time when I think we cut the ribbon in 1975. I would like us to examine all possibilities for how we as a government could not retire that infrastructure but somehow re-profile it and put it and keep it in service for something. I would like to ask the Minister if he could confirm that – I know what he’s saying about the mechanical and all that – that the code for construction or utilization for a hospital would be different than...