Robert Bouchard
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Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Deputy Minister Aumond.
Thank you, Minister. Deputy minister.
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Miltenberger.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In follow up, I have questions for the Minister of Health. My first question is: How is the GNWT planning to bring the Hay River Health Authority into the GNWT, especially in light of them creating a one health board system?
Page 151, Department of Finance, budget, treasury and debt management, operations expenditure summary, $26.860 million. Ms. Bisaro.
Mr. Dolynny.
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We’ll go to the deputy minister for clarification.
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Miltenberger.
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Deputy Minister Aumond.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It has been several years since Hay River has had a full-time resident judge and remand in its South Mackenzie Correctional Centre, SMCC. It was not too long ago that we had a full-time judge that lived in Hay River, that worked in Hay River and travelled around the South Slave doing work for Justice. Along with that judge came remand, inmates that were waiting on trial. Several years ago the Department of Justice, in their wisdom, decided to remove remand out of Hay River and centralize Yellowknife. We’re very concerned with this. There are a lot of extra costs for...