Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, if you want to come through me to redirect the question, I can do that. Thank you. If I can redirect it to Minister Cochrane? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, for that, I would like to go to the Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we can't doom this project to failure before we even start. We need to make a business case. If we build a business case and we are able to secure customers, then that, in turn, will have an effect on ratepayers across Northwest Territories. That will bring their cost of living down. There is a trickle-down effect. It is $200,000 in the overall big picture. I think it is a worthwhile investment. If you are trying to sell something, you need to put a good business case forward. The Member may disagree with me. We have a number of initiatives government-wide, a...

I will have a conversation with the Minister of Infrastructure. A lot of the information that goes on within the government, we will share it with the Member, and then we will make a determination if that information could be shared with the community or not. We will share it with the Member first, and then we will have a discussion. We will go from there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following two documents entitled "Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2018-2019;" and "Supplementary Estimates (Operation Expenditures), No. 2, 2018-2019." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that is a "Health Station Replacement," so that would be in Sambaa K'e in the Member's riding, formerly Trout Lake, Sambaa K'e.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it is my understanding that there is no new work being done, and we will have a look at it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the quick answer is yes, they will be in place. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, when this was originally introduced, I believe we had passed it in the capital budget session, and it seemed to be appropriate at the time. Again, without knowing the details and the specs required for the new facility, it is probably not fair for me to comment on that, but once we know the details or have a conceptual design, then we will have a pretty good indication.

Maybe it's the cost of doing business in the capital, as well, and I don't mean that in a negative way, but there is a higher cost to doing business in the capital. It is less expensive in some...

Thank you Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I am going to make an attempt to answer that, and if I'm wrong then I'm sure the Minister of Infrastructure will correct me. As far as the Member's first point on the information that we provided them, again, I think it goes back to an earlier point that one of the Member has made about the short timeline that we had from the briefing this morning, until we got into Committee of the Whole with the supplementary estimates this afternoon, so we tried to provide whatever information we could in that short timeframe. As we go forward, we're going to try and space...