Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, what I take issue here with is the fact that we are dealing with a territory that has no real responsibility for its fiscal situation because we get $900 million directly or indirectly from the federal government. Five hundred million dollars of that is right out the door in salaries and benefits to our employees and I think, Mr. Speaker, we have higher priorities than this macroeconomic policy division. We need to hire nurses, we need to hire teachers. If you look at an ad that I found in the Globe and Mail recently, we're going to pay these policy analysts in this shop $80,000 a year. That's more than any nurse or teacher that I know make. Mr. Speaker, we don't have...
David Ramsay on Question 198-15(5): GNWT Macroeconomic Policy Division
In the Legislative Assembly on October 26th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 198-15(5): GNWT Macroeconomic Policy Division
Question 198-15(5): GNWT Macroeconomic Policy Division
Item 7: Oral Questions
October 25th, 2006
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