Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, as we speak, I have asked our office to get some clarity on the issue, but I can tell you today with full confidence, that the announcement I made earlier last week when I tabled the Creation of Two Territories document in which the federal Minister, Ms. Jane Stewart, committed to myself that she is prepared to sit down at the table to look at transitional cost, et cetera is the one that I have no reason to disbelieve will not happen. It may in fact be a communications problem between the Minister's office and the staff who, I understand, are sitting in Iqaluit; but I have no reason not to take the federal Minister at her word when she committed to us that a table would be brought together to look at transitional costs and to move forward in an orderly way to reach a consensus on what course of action we are going to take to divide the territories into two. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 687-13(4): Comments From Diand Official
In the Legislative Assembly on October 15th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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October 14th, 1997
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