Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions this morning are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, who is the principal signatory, under his watch, to the recently released socio-economic agreement on the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Mr. Speaker, this agreement is 42 single-spaced pages of agreement, plus another 20 pages of appendix. You know, as I was saying in my statement, as I look through this and consider the consequences of it, indeed, I asked are we repeating history from Norman Wells, Pine Point, the Yellowknife goldfields, the diamond mines? Mr. Speaker, we're giving in to the needs in this agreement of the world's richest and most powerful corporations, and I would say to the greed of Ottawa, while we leave the real needs and the future of our own people on the backburner. Mr. Speaker, why did the government sign off on this deal before getting the coveted resource revenue sharing agreement and devolution deal from Ottawa, Mr. Speaker?
Bill Braden on Question 373-15(5): Resource Revenue Sharing Negotiations
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Question 373-15(5): Resource Revenue Sharing Negotiations
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 19th, 2007
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