Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this community consultation is not going to be a one-time thing, but we are not going to infringe on the communities that don't want to have these types of consultation. My department is going to be open for a request coming from them. As a former SAO, Madam Chair, I have tried, even when I was there at the municipal level, to try to educate my own municipal councillors as to what this whole assessment process that is used, what it means and how it reverts back to our municipal funding. Many of our SAOs do that for their own councillor so that their own municipal council will understand that whole taxation concept. Through our School of Community Government, part of their training reflects in that area. I can tell the Member that any community that wants to have our officials with the officials from the Department of Finance to come in and thoroughly explain or just to go there for question and answer period, we are willing to accommodate them. Thank you.
Henry Zoe on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 26th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 25th, 2004
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