Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, all these contracts are under the BIP, the Business Incentive Policy. As a result, there is a lot of northern preference worked into the public tender process. In some cases, there are contractors out there that have a southern component. If they meet the BIP requirements to the public tender process, what we have been doing is encouraging them to use northern local first and northern as much as possible. A lot of them have been complying by it more and more over the years. I think that we are going to see a steady move towards that by all the contractors in the north. We are certainly concerned about it ourselves. The department has been instructed to make sure that they comply by northern preference. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Committee Motion 14-13(4): Recommendation To Reinstate Original Funding For Arviat Airport Lighting Project
In the Legislative Assembly on February 18th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 14-13(4): Recommendation To Reinstate Original Funding For Arviat Airport Lighting Project
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 17th, 1997
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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