Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I will not be supporting this motion. I believe the motion is premature. I had asked questions of the Minister. Some of them he had answered, some he had committed to getting back to me. I accept that the Minister would have available to him expertise that could advise him as to the status or requirement of this particular project. I respect that. What I am interested in and my questioning were towards the fiscal responsibility. Does this work have to be done now or could it wait? For those questions the Minister was getting answers to me. That is why I could not support this motion at this time, because I do not have all the answers and I spoke to that clearly in my questioning. That I wanted additional information, not from the perspective of cancelling it, from a fiscal responsibility to ensure that what the Minister's experts were telling him also made sound financial sense in our present economic climate. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Seamus Henry on Committee Motion 13-13(4): Recommendation To Redistribute $2 Million To Gravel Runway Projects In Smaller Communities
In the Legislative Assembly on February 14th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 13-13(4): Recommendation To Redistribute $2 Million To Gravel Runway Projects In Smaller Communities
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 13th, 1997
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Seamus Henry Yellowknife South
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