...that the Member from Yellowknife South implied do not live elsewhere in the north. I might add, for the second time in this House that I can recollect, I think it is an unfair comment to a vast majority of people in the north that have built the north. I would also like to point out that when you become a capital city, you experience a huge influx of capital, money, government resources, and accompanying businesses and services that set up around capitals. Yellowknife's growth has shown that, and I think as we go with division in Nunavut, that Iqaluit will experience the same thing. I think it is an indication of how big Yellowknife has become, and how used they are to getting the resources they do get, when the Member can say that 12 jobs are trifling, insignificant, and not even hardly worth considering. I can assure you, Mr. Speaker, a community like Fort Smith, with 2,500 people, that is suffering greatly, or like the other communities around this table where people are suffering greatly, would be very happy to have 12 jobs with the attending infrastructure and the families that go with it, and the impact it would have on our communities.
Mr. Speaker, I think we have to keep things in perspective. Very clearly, Yellowknife has had cuts, but they are doing their share. As I said before, they do have the resources and the ability to sustain those far more than most other communities. I would just like to point out a line from Hamlet, that my good friend Will Shakespeare wrote. If I can steal a page from Mr. Picco's book, "Me thinks thou doth protest too much," may be applicable in some cases when we here people say they are being cut too much. Thank you.
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