Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to start off by sending greetings to my wife and children and family back home in Inuvik. Mr. Speaker, I had an opportunity to return home for the weekend and spend Thanksgiving with my children and my family. I am thankful for that, and I recognize many Members from the east were not able to do that and wish they were able to do so, but not saying that they will be able to return home for their weekend coming up. Mr. Speaker, the opportunity I received going home for the weekend was to hold a meeting. At this meeting I was able to speak to a number of people from the community and the concerns raised during the Thanksgiving weekend was not many to be thankful for. There was a lot of concern about what is to come up and what is happening in the communities. Government employees are just hanging onto their jobs. They are looking for other jobs even though we try to send a positive message. That is why we need to, as Members of this Assembly start to send a positive message of what we are going to do, what we can do and not what we cannot do. Mr. Speaker, I will be in the next number of days asking questions to this government on what we are doing on issues that can put people to work and take them off of income support. I am thankful for the opportunity to represent the people of Inuvik in this setting. I would be even more thankful when I can start telling them positive news that there are jobs coming down the road. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Floyd Roland on Member's Statement 477-13(4): Positive Messages
In the Legislative Assembly on October 14th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Member's Statement 477-13(4): Positive Messages
Item 3: Members' Statements
October 13th, 1997
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