Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to raise the matter of the significant need in this
community, Our capital city, to replace sewer lines, which have been rotted away over the past 30 - 40 years that they have been in place.
Just over ten years ago a former member of this Assembly brought a section of pipe into the Legislative Assembly chambers to show evidence of the desperate need which the municipality had for financial help with the costs of the major capital infrastructure replacement. When the city of Yellowknife negotiated its block funding agreement in 1993, it settled for a substantially lower level of funding than it historically had been receiving, in exchange for the certainty of funding over a number of years. A block funding agreement between the city and the GNWT was renewed just over one year ago. This government committed to providing financial assistance to the city and recognized the need the city still has to replace aging sewer infrastructure. Mr. Speaker, in keeping with the tradition of the MLAs from Yellowknife North, I have with me here today another piece of pipe.
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