I do not know if the Member was in the House or not but I thought I had indicated but I will try again. Now there is two or three parts to this overall economic strategy. It is a strategy being put together to convince Ottawa to have a new fiscal relationship with the Western Territory to enable us; one, to get into a new tax window as it relates to non-renewable resources; two, to build a public infrastructure to support the non-renewable resources; and three, to give the kind of economic contribution to the private sector and to others to go about doing this work. Mr. Bailey has no involvement with the transportation strategy. Mr. Bailey is working on the component and the details necessary to argue the case for a new fiscal relationship with the federal government. He is re-examining some of the programs we currently are doing to see if they are effective and can they be changed accordingly. In the meantime, Mr. Antoine and his department, are working on an overall implementation plan for four critical roads which are a critical part of the overall strategy that we are trying to develop to get into the tax window, to develop a non-renewable resource industry, to build roads to resources and to ensure that we become less dependent on the federal government and we can create an economic activity that will benefit all northerners. The only relationship between Mr. Bailey and Mr. Antoine is in the overall picture that I am coordinating. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 62-13(6): Economic Development Strategy
In the Legislative Assembly on September 21st, 1998. See this statement in context.
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Question 62-13(6): Economic Development Strategy
Item 6: Oral Questions
September 20th, 1998
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