Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I agree with the Government Leader in what she is saying, but I would like to add that when I was campaigning, I was asked a question, why is it that we are at home, we have been given assistance to get a home, we have lived in the North for a long time, but the manner in which a person who is hired to the GNWT is given a house which he is, of course, paying for, but the other benefit that the employee receives is furniture, something that is, I think, to some people a luxury item. I have been to homes where people are sleeping with mattresses on the floor. Their houses are so rundown that there is no proper heating, the house is not level, and yet we have employees whose houses are renovated every three or four years. The level of service that is given to our employees, I think, is much more luxurious than what is received by just ordinary people on the street. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Silas Arngna'naaq on Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 26th, 1992. See this statement in context.
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 25th, 1992
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Silas Arngna'naaq Kivallivik
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