Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No. Our Premier and Finance Minister were very clear with the federal Ministers and with the Deputy Prime Minister that these were really on parallel courses. We wanted to sit down with our aboriginal partners and negotiate some bridge funding to deal with social impacts, but our key priority and the priority of northern governments was to get a resource revenue sharing deal and an AIP by this summer. We know that the Deputy Prime Minister came out in public and articulated the government's support for getting a deal done. I believe she used, I could check on this, by the end of June I think was the timing. So that was the time frame we were shooting for anyway. I could certainly check the press announcements around that, but there was an acknowledgement by the federal government that we needed to get that AIP done, as well. We are still moving forward on that. That involves not only ourselves and the federal government, but the summit and aboriginal governments, so it is important for us to work together to move toward that. Certainly, that is our priority. 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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