Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, it has been a little over a year since the Member for Nahendeh has updated us on the shenanigans in the fictional community of Lynx River on the television show, North of 60. Madam Speaker, I must say I certainly admire the chief of Lynx River for his accomplishments over the last year. So far, I have seen at least four new houses...
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...and a town recreation centre built. He even convinced a couple of crazy Italians to build a tannery to provide employment for the community. Madam Speaker, I mean no offence to Italians by calling the two of them in the show crazy. But I do think anyone who builds a factory in a town with no transportation infrastructure is crazy.
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Madam Speaker, I again mean no offence to the Member for Nahendeh when I say Italians would be much better off building a tannery in Fort Providence. The community at least has a road in and out of it. We can offer cheap land and a trained and willing workforce. Did I leave some of my notes somewhere?
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Madam Speaker, wouldn't it be great if we did have people from Italy and Japan coming to our doorstep and begging us to start business in our communities.
Madam Speaker, the mountie is no longer going with the nurse. And the nurse is no longer going with reality.
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I may be pursuing a line of questioning in question period as to why the nurse was sent to Edmonton for psychiatric observation, instead of to the fine facility we have in Yellowknife.
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I believe this may have been a waste of taxpayers' money. Madam Speaker, is this why some of our smaller communities cannot keep a nurse? We may have to enact legislation to keep the mounties away from the nurses, so neither one of them ends up getting...(inaudible)...after their relationship falls apart.