Yes. Mr. Speaker. I had invited the banks up here in an effort to, as I said earlier and perhaps in a more highly emotional charged tone, as part of my overall strategy of trying to reassure the investment community that this was a good place to do business. As part of the bankers' trips, who were here at my invitation, we were giving them in-depth technical briefings, today, all day, this morning. I asked them if they would be willing to attend the budget speech, which they did, and I wanted to get the initial reaction to the budget and, two, we had selected a cross section of business communities, people like Mr. Harper from Iqaluit, Mr. Walker from Yellowknife, Mr. Chang, et cetera, to have an exchange between the bankers and these kinds of people who invest in this company to see if the policies that we were proposing were the kind of policies that they would support. We were extremely fortunate that we were able to get the senior vice-presidents from all the major banks in Canada to be with us today, and they will be on their way to BHP tomorrow and then they will depart home. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 69-13(5): Attendance At Post-budget Address Meeting
In the Legislative Assembly on January 22nd, 1998. See this statement in context.
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Question 69-13(5): Attendance At Post-budget Address Meeting
Item 7: Oral Questions
January 21st, 1998
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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