Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Premier and it gets back to my statement from earlier and it's in terms of resource development. I just wanted to say we certainly have a strong economy here in the Northwest Territories; we have jobs. If you look around specifically the city of Yellowknife where we've had some experience with resource development on our doorstep, they've brought a strong housing market where some homes are in excess of 400 or 450 thousand dollars, expensive costs of living where families are having trouble making ends meet. It's also brought some social concerns to the city. Obviously, if you look around, you can see it if you walk downtown Yellowknife. Money doesn't always bring good things, Mr. Speaker. It brings increased crime, drugs, things like that. We have some experience. Communities have IBAs with industry. The city of Yellowknife doesn't have anything. I'm wondering why was there no consideration for any type of funding for socio-economic impacts in large centres like Yellowknife, Hay River and Fort Smith. Why were they left out?
David Ramsay on Question 388-15(4): Socio-economic Funding For Larger Centres
In the Legislative Assembly on February 13th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Question 388-15(4): Socio-economic Funding For Larger Centres
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 12th, 2006
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