Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This position would help us as a government overall. Each department has some resources and some staffing that's in place to help them with their area in doing some development modelling and some of the impacts, as we do with forced growth. That exercise would continue. What this would do is help us as a government, on a territorial perspective, look at those impacts that we would be feeling and let the departments use that information, so they can build in a more timely manner their plans around dealing with those impacts. From a territorial perspective, it would allow us, again in a more timely fashion, to present our arguments and have the best information available as we deal with our other governments in Canada. So it's not that this position alone, we will start creating within each department a better way of doing things. What it will do is help each department within what they have now available to build a plan that we can deal with in a more coordinated fashion. It's one piece of the puzzle. Alone it can't do it, but it can help each department in its plans and us as a government overall. So it's a piece of the puzzle that can definitely assist us as we go forward. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on June 1st, 2004. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
June 1st, 2004
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