Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My honourable colleague is correct. We need to get some orderly transition plan in place so the effects, both positive and negative depending on where you stand, are minimized. As I have said many times in this House, the exercise is currently underway by the departments to provide us with the pre-implementation of division plan that we can move in an orderly way to get the new government up and running and stabilizing the one that will exist in the west. That technical exercise is underway right now. I am hoping we can conclude it sometime in late August. It would then have to be vetted through a variety of players, because everybody is at the table, from the Western Coalition, the Interim Commissioner, the NTI, to the federal government, to the Legislative Assembly. We are just all going to have a big meeting about this and come to some agreement that we can move forward so that we have two new governments in place for April 1, 1999, and it is done in an orderly, equitable and fair manner. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 543-13(4): Division Transition Plan
In the Legislative Assembly on June 4th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Question 543-13(4): Division Transition Plan
Item 6: Oral Questions
June 3rd, 1997
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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