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The opening of a long-promised cancer treatment centre for Calgary will be delayed a further four years, Premier Rachel Notley confirmed Wednesday.

While Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said this past summer she was optimistic the facility would still open by 2020, the government now says the facility at Foothills campus won’t open until 2024. Construction is slated to begin in 2017.

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Details in Tuesday’s provincial budget show the NDP plans to spend $830 million over the next five years to design and construct a replacement for the city’s aging and overcrowded Tom Baker Cancer Centre.

The new facility will be built on the northeast corner of the Foothills campus.

The $830 million will not cover the entire cost of the project. On Tuesday, Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason said the final price tag could be double that figure.

“I think that ($830 million) should get us about halfway there,” Mason said.

When the project was previously announced by the Progressive Conservative regime in 2013, the price-tag was $1.3 billion.

Hoffman has said she hopes the government can construct the centre for less than that amount in a cooling construction market.

“This investment strengthens health care for Albertans, and it’s happening at the right time, while construction costs are low and while we’re focused on taking care of each other during tough times,” Notley said in a press release Wednesday.