Mr. Speaker, if I could, some of my colleagues seem to think money does grow on trees here in the Northwest Territories. Mr. Speaker, it doesn't. We have scarce resources. The Premier negotiates a new formula financing agreement and the first thing he does is run out and try to find a project to spend $2 million plus a year on. How is that being fiscally responsible? I stand here before my colleagues and I am trying my best and I ran on a platform of being fiscally responsible and it means something to me. It does. I am not going to give carte blanche to a project where I don't know what the final numbers are. I have no idea. I have no idea what the tolls are going to be. I have no idea what it's going to mean to my constituents. How can I unequivocally support a project like that? How can I do that? I can't do that. I couldn't go out this October and knock on doors in my riding having done something like that, Mr. Speaker. To me, that's not a responsible thing to do.
David Ramsay on Motion To Amend Motion 8-15(6), Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Motion To Amend Motion 8-15(6), Carried
Item 17: Motions
May 16th, 2007
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