Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, further to my Member's statement, I would like to ask questions to the Minister of Finance. Mr. Speaker, I took an economics course in a business program that I attended. One of the few things I learned from there is that for every dollar we put into our economy, there is supposed to be a multiplier effect of $4. So that would translate that, if you throw away a dollar, you are throwing away $4 to somewhere else. Another thing I learned from being a politician is that the government has to do a different kind of cost-benefit analysis. You don't do a hard line analysis that businesses do, which is everything is about the bottom line. Public government and public expenditure is about how we maximize benefits for the people. I believe, in this budget, the Minister of Finance is asking for economic analyst positions in his department. I would like to know if the Minister has done, or plans to do, some kind of a cost-benefit analysis about the spin-off benefits of the pipeline that we can take advantage of. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Sandy Lee on Question 411-15(4): Primary Beneficiaries Of The Mackenzie Gas Pipeline Project
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Question 411-15(4): Primary Beneficiaries Of The Mackenzie Gas Pipeline Project
Oral Questions
February 14th, 2006
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