Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I agree with you, Mr. Todd. I have used that argument and I have presented that argument on the ripple effect on the territorial residents. Back some years ago, Greenpeace seemed to have won the seal battle, basically putting the majority of the Inuits out of work in the eastern Arctic, because they no longer were able to harvest seals to sell the hides. The only light for our young people, through a long dark winter, is that hope of getting that job next summer of building houses. I have made that argument with the federal government and will continue to do so. It is going to have a drastic effect on this government. We are going to see social services costs go up, health costs go up, justice costs go up, because all that is a spin-off from it. I have not been able to sit down, my people have not been able to sit down and analyze what these costs are yet, but they will have a devastating effect on us. It is guaranteed we will see businesses go under, if we leave everything the way it is now today, saying that we only build 153 units.
Don Morin on Tabled Document 89-12(2): Housing Needs Survey 1992
In the Legislative Assembly on September 16th, 1992. See this statement in context.
Tabled Document 89-12(2): Housing Needs Survey 1992
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
September 15th, 1992
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
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