Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the whole water tanker initiative by this government started quite a few years ago. Our experience prior to trying to support northern people to get the capacity up to do this work, we were paying a lot of dollars to have these services provided from a southern company in the past. Once the work that was done to try to determine exactly how the type of services that are going to be provided up here, it started about ten years ago, seven years ago when Buffalo Airways was awarded this contract, there was a lot of work done prior to that and at that time. Since that time, when we were looking at how we can approach what we are going to do here, there has been a lot of work done. An analysis has been done on how things were done in the past to get it to this point in time to raise these arguments. I have discussed this with the department on a number of occasions and went with this direction because of the different work that has been done in the past to develop these arguments. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Question 407-14(5): Negotiated Contract For Air Tanker Services
In the Legislative Assembly on October 25th, 2002. See this statement in context.
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Question 407-14(5): Negotiated Contract For Air Tanker Services
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 24th, 2002
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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