I cannot quantify it in numbers, Mr. Speaker. As I said, it is an experiment, and I cannot tell you how many jobs it is going to create in the NWT. I can tell you that the co-operative is sitting with $1.9 million worth of stock in its warehouse in Winnipeg. I can tell you that people across the Northwest Territories who are making arts and crafts, who are doing carvings, are not selling as many as they used to. That is because we are producing more than is being sold, because the traffic into the Northwest Territories is not as great as the amount of handicrafts that we are producing. All we are doing is saying there is a potential there to help those level II and III communities, those crafts people, and the problem that everybody is experiencing right now is finding markets. If that means that this government has to go out there and move those products, then we will do it. If it is successful, we will gladly spin it off to the private sector. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
John Pollard on Question O274-12(2): Retail Outlet At Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto
In the Legislative Assembly on March 6th, 1992. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question O274-12(2): Retail Outlet At Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto
Question O274-12(2): Retail Outlet At Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto
Item 5: Oral Questions
March 5th, 1992
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John Pollard Hay River
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