Thank you, Madam Chair. I thank the Finance Minister for that, but somebody had to have been doing the work from 1999 until today. Like I mentioned, it seems so much like a coincidence that the Bureau of Statistics leaves the Department of Finance and then immediately, to replace it, comes this macroeconomic research and policy division. It really does seem to me to be a coincidence. I have been around politics for almost 10 years now. When somebody loses something, they always want to get something in return, or get something back, staff up. I can't discount the importance of something like this. I think it is important, but, to me, in a government of our size with 4,600 employees, somebody somewhere had to have been doing some work on macroeconomic policy. If they weren't, then something is definitely wrong, Madam Chair. Between the years 1999 and 2006, who was doing the work on macroeconomic policy for the Government of the Northwest Territories? Where were you getting the information from? You had to be getting it somewhere. You weren't pulling it out of thin air, so where was it coming from? Thank you.
David Ramsay on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 22nd, 2006
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