Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regards to the policy and also the economic conditions we find ourselves in statistically, we all have all a snapshot of exactly who is most affected in the north yet the majority of the population are the ones who are most in demand when it comes to unemployment, social statistics, crime. Yet we make comments in this House that people cannot get up in the morning to go to work. Well, in my region I have worked with many people in the oil patch. One time we had full native crews working in the Beaufort, people working on building man-made islands were aboriginal people. Yet the same people I worked with in the 1970s and 1980s are unemployed, not for a matter of two to three years, we are talking five to ten years. These people have been getting up in the morning looking for work, yet the work is not there.
David Krutko on Committee Report 7-13(4): Report Of The Working Group On Affirmative Action And Human Resource Management
In the Legislative Assembly on June 4th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Committee Report 7-13(4): Report Of The Working Group On Affirmative Action And Human Resource Management
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 3rd, 1997
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