James Steidle: Region needs to pay its fair share for hospital upgrades

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Back in December, the Northern Health Authority requested $41.3 million from the Fraser Fort George Regional Hospital District -- in other words our local property taxpayers -- to begin work on a new parkade

Our fine city hasn’t had much luck with parkades in recent years, but that doesn’t mean we won’t build more with even less accountability and less tax fairness.

Now it’s true our local representatives could have turned down the funding request, and the parkade and demolition would simply not proceed. But even if the board of Northern Health was elected, the administrative boundaries of this board’s responsibilities encompass much more than the regional district of Fraser Fort-George. Some regional hospital districts are cut in half by the Northern Health boundary.

A lot of folks from Quesnel, Vanderhoof, Burns Lake, Smithers, and probably even in the Peace and Prince Rupert, will likely be using the Prince George parkade and hospital expansion, all of whom reside outside the boundaries of Fraser Fort-George.

 

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