(Translation) Thank you, Madam Speaker and colleagues. The hamlet managed to talk them down to using a small plane for the 1,000 mile trip. However, if they had waited one more day, the equipment and personnel could have arrived on a scheduled flight at a fraction of the cost. The hamlet estimates that $30,000 to $50,000 was spent unnecessarily on the frozen water line affair.
Smaller projects, such as printing and cleaning buildings, are done in elaborate government fashion and billed to the hamlet at the highest rate possible, plus administration and GST charges. My point is that especially in times of financial restraint, the government must work more closely with the hamlet to keep costs down as much as possible. I will be pursuing this matter with the government during this session. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
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