Sandy Lee

I appreciate that really the detailed discussion we’re having is for this fiscal year, but as I stated to the public of Simpson residents who showed up at our meeting when we visited with the Member, the Fort Simpson facility needs significant work on its foundation and renovation. It will be out for planning study up next, the Simpson facility.

Mr. Speaker, I answered the question the Member asked, which is what is the projected deficit for Stanton and the system-wide deficit at the end of 2010-11. I don’t know what information he has. Maybe he is thinking about accumulated deficit.

Obviously, this is a number that we are projecting. Mr. Speaker, this is a serious matter that I am willing to discuss and exchange information with the Member on. I don’t think anybody is doing any creative math here. All the facts are out. We presented to the Members on the other side all the information we have. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don’t have that number handy. I think Smith is budgeted for five doctors.

All building projects under government funding are a joint project between service departments like ours, Department of Health and Social Services, and building departments, the Department of Public Works. I believe the Department of Public Works has a committee or a group set up to look at the environmental aspect of that. So I don’t know if Minister McLeod has any more to add, but the building and the design and the environmental part of it is DPW’s side. Thank you.

I need to get more detail. I don’t want to get the facts wrong. I believe some of it is leased. Government is leasing from Tlicho the B-C health centre, but not the long-term care centre that is there right now. I will confirm that. I just want to make sure that I have my information correct. That’s my understanding.

For many, many years now we have not had a long-term care facility in small communities funded. There were long-term care facilities built by the Housing Corporation and I do support what Member Beaulieu said, for example, that we need to work to make those rooms available to our elderly and other people who need those rooms in our communities as assisted living facility, which is what it was meant to do. So I don’t think there’s much change in what we are doing, what we have been doing in the Territories for the last 10 years.

What is different with the recent work that we have done is that...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is an item in the budget, in the capital estimates for Stanton, eight hundred and some thousand dollars to do a planning study. I’d like to ask the deputy minister, who is also the public administrator, to give the Members an update on the work that we’re doing with respect to Stanton Territorial Hospital.

My understanding is that building will come down and the new building will be built on that site to replace it. That existing building has flooring problems or roofing problems and where using the same site.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don’t have the numbers on me right now, but some of them were ready before division. It’s not huge in numbers, but we have a few. So I will get back to the Member on the numbers. Thank you.

Yes, I will, Mr. Chairman.