Thank you, Madam Chair. As the Premier is well aware, I've spoken in the last little while here about my strong feelings on the resource revenue sharing and how I feel we're losing out big time here. I know the Premier shares some of the same feelings towards this, but my questions would be on the office of devolution. I'd like to know what the actual duties of this office are. Who does the actual negotiating on behalf of the GNWT? How many people are in this office, and if it would be possible to get a list of the workers in the office and a brief description of their duties, that would be really helpful to me because this is a subject now that I think leadership in the NWT is going to have to get very passionate about, because the longer we take, the more we lose and with the uncertainty of a minority government, we may be having another election in a little while and then we're back to square one again. I just want to be assured that we're not always going to be ending up back in square one with the changes in the federal government, especially with a minority government, and I'd like to make sure that this is something that we keep right on the front burner, on the front page, because this is something that we really need to have to start putting up a fight for here in the NWT because we're losing big time and the more I get educated on the numbers and the potential numbers we could lose, the amount of money we've already had go to Ottawa, the more and more that it's beginning to upset me. I'd like the leadership in the whole of the NWT to feel the same way. That way we can passionately go after what's rightfully ours. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Robert C. McLeod on Committee Motion 30-15(4): Recommendation To Remove The Socio-economic Impact Fund Senior Advisor Position, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 27th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 30-15(4): Recommendation To Remove The Socio-economic Impact Fund Senior Advisor Position, Carried
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 26th, 2006
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