(through a translator) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. (end translator.) ..especially in the north. Housing is critical to survive even in the '90s. There are still very long winters and the wind still blows. Our people have all learned to make their own homes to survive in conditions that no-one else on earth can still believe. Now we have benefitted from modern houses designed in the south, mostly built by southerners and until three years ago, often badly designed and badly built.
Levi Barnabas on Poor Housing Conditions
In the Legislative Assembly on October 15th, 1996. See this statement in context.
Poor Housing Conditions
Item 2: Ministers' Statements
October 14th, 1996
Page 1122
Levi Barnabas High Arctic
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