Flipping defensive. Anyway. How can we have a dialogue about not only how we're spending money, but how do we introduce a new policy? How can we have that kind of dialogue if all we get is either ignorance about the concerns being raised or defensiveness or just total fear on the part of so many Members that if we say anything negative about these housing initiatives that we're not going to get that extra bed? The Minister keeps talking about these 66 new beds that we have placed into parts of the Northwest Territories that weren't there before, well those are sitting empty. I'm telling you, I don't want to be known as a part of a legislative...I'm not really looking forward to being remembered as part of the Assembly that put a bunch of mobile homes all over the place in the Northwest Territories. Nothing against mobile homes, but surely if there's room for us to do better, we could do better. We're not going to do better unless we talk about what we've done wrong.
Sandy Lee on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 3rd, 2005. 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 2nd, 2005
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