Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. We've been talking a lot about fair deals in this House. Mr. Speaker, just like the NWT wants a fair deal from Ottawa and sometimes the type of funding formulas that they offer to us as the Northwest Territories don't really work out for us, I have to tell you that the communities in the Northwest Territories expect a fair deal from this government, and the formula that has come up under the New Deal for water and sewer subsidy for Hay River is not a fair deal. Mr. Speaker, I would like to say that in our consensus form of government we support each other. We support each other's ridings, we support each others regions, and we try to do what's fair. The only communities that suffered a setback in this area as a result of the New Deal was Hay River and Yellowknife, and Hay River is obviously the community that I want to talk about. Just like if Ottawa was to say to the Northwest Territories, here, take over this responsibility, and then a number of years in said we're going to cut your funding to do that in half. There was a reason why Hay River had more support for water subsidy. It had to do with the corridor. The corridor used to be the GNWT responsibility. Hay River took that in, was given funding that was reflective of that, and I'd like to ask the Minister, has he been able to confirm that that's why Hay River was getting more support financially through MACA was because of the corridor? Thank you.
Jane Groenewegen on Question 469-15(5): Community Funding Under The Water And Sewage Services Policy
In the Legislative Assembly on March 9th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Question 469-15(5): Community Funding Under The Water And Sewage Services Policy
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 8th, 2007
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