Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I know it's going to be a costly initiative. I know the existing dollars are not right now in this government. But there's got to be some creative solution from this side and from the House here. We can't go back to the elders in Colville Lake, Deline, Fort Good Hope and say to them listen, we have to wait another year. Sorry, but we don't have enough money. That's unacceptable. Mr. Speaker, we have to go back to the communities and tell the elders this is what we can do, this is emergency funding, this is what we're doing with it. Oil companies are doing it with the other agencies to get fuel into the communities, either be it wood or diesel fuel. So we have to come back. So I'm going to ask again to this Minister, can he go back to this Cabinet, ask his Cabinet members to think about doing something so that we can give the elders a break in terms of this program for this winter? I understand where he's coming from, but it's unacceptable. Thank you.
Norman Yakeleya on Question 155-15(5): Elders' Fuel Subsidy Programs
In the Legislative Assembly on October 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 155-15(5): Elders' Fuel Subsidy Programs
Question 155-15(5): Elders' Fuel Subsidy Programs
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 19th, 2006
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