The Fair Care Alliance says it has asked the federal government for a share of $5 billion in hospital infrastructure funding. Fair Care Alliance chairperson Donna Hais said to upgrade and provide appropriate levels of health care north of the Malahat would require a substantial investment of $2 billion, and that is why the group travelled to Ottawa to seek urgent funding. “We went to Ottawa to ask for our fair share of the hospital infrastructure funding, and with our project costing $2.4 billion, we were there to talk about putting some funding into Nanaimo,” she said. The Fair Care Alliance has been calling for provincial support to bring tertiary services north of the Malahat, and Hais said provincial funding is insufficient and that leveraging the hospital infrastructure fund could speed up the process. “We realize there’s a lot of people with a lot of need asking our province for money,” she said.