Mr. Speaker, I am not even going to wade into this dispute about what are contract administration issues and what are BIP administration issues. This is one of the biggest shell games I have ever seen, Mr. Speaker. I am glad the Minister raised the issue of labour rebates. We have had store-fronting problems with BIP. That is no surprise to anybody. We figured, I guess, with this revision that we are going to change all that because we are going to now allow it. What we are going to do is we are going to apply BIP to companies purporting to have a percentage of northern content or northern labour in their proposals and we are going to take their word for it, Mr. Speaker. How does this make any sense? Why are we proposing that we will go back after the fact and audit these things when we know that we do not have the capability to do that? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Brendan Bell on Question 328-14(5): Business Incentive Policy Revisions
In the Legislative Assembly on October 16th, 2002. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 328-14(5): Business Incentive Policy Revisions
Question 328-14(5): Business Incentive Policy Revisions
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 15th, 2002
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