My final question to the Minister - if I could be heard over the eruptions to my right here, does anybody have any antacid? - is regards to compliance. I have been talking to a number of businesses lately and people who deal with BIP and the issue of compliance, which is very complicated and of concern to a lot of Members. It is one that I am not sure how you can address but the more rules you put in, the more adept people or businesses seem to become at finding ways to possibly circumvent them. I am very concerned that even companies that are northern, according to their store signs that they hang over their businesses, in fact, bring in a lot of their labour from the south or that you will go through one or two northern sort-of store operations but in the end it still brings people in from the south but on paper you have complied with your northern requirements. I think that it is a significant issue and I think it is one of the sources of concern when you talk to what I would say are legitimate northern businesses that have their entire operation located in the north and they are competing against that sort of situations of that nature. I do not have an answer, I have more of a question. Does the Minister see a way in this particular review of the BIP of trying to deal with that particular issue? Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 11th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 10th, 1997
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