We agree that we need to keep the pressure up on getting this bridge funding. The voting in Ottawa and the uncertainty obviously impacted our ability to get a meeting, but we had some work to do prior to that meeting. We and the aboriginal governments had to sit down to quantify the impacts and be able to put enough detail and substantiation behind our ask that the federal government could move that forward and talk to the Treasury Board about that. There was some work for us to do. We have had meetings now and I believe going on this week in Ottawa with our senior staff and federal government senior staff possibly also in Calgary. We are now looking to next week or the week after to press for another political meeting to see if we can get a final deal on the table. We hope that we are very close, but we are certainly not letting up on this. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Brendan Bell on Question 20-15(4): Socioeconomic Impacts Of Pipeline Development
In the Legislative Assembly on May 26th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 20-15(4): Socioeconomic Impacts Of Pipeline Development
Question 20-15(4): Socioeconomic Impacts Of Pipeline Development
Item 7: Oral Questions
May 25th, 2005
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