Thank you, Madam Chair. I cannot by any stretch of the imagination understand how a company like a bank, like the Royal Bank of Canada, made over a billion dollars last year and is firmly entrenched in southern Canada, Toronto and all the rest, how that could be classified as a northern firm? Similarly, I do not understand how Canadian Airlines and other organizations like that can be classified as a northern firm. I guess when we are dealing with things like this, we should get proper information rather than, I know we are talking about the business incentive policy and that, but if we are going to be giving some statement then, I think we should try to actually talk about what a northern firm owned by northerners is, if we are going to classify a firm as northern. Does that, when we are talking about the $30,000 northern tenders, is that the same definition used for the northern tenders for that $30,000 in the BIP where if it is under $30,000, only northern firms can bid? Does that also include the grandfathered firms?
Roy Erasmus 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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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
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