Mr. Speaker and colleagues, today I will support the second reading, only because of the debate and the opportunity that I’ll have a chance to.... There are a few good things in my riding that’ll be coming out of this. There is the access road for my community of Tuk. These are little problems in the south which are big problems in the smaller communities. Access to gravel: we haven’t had gravel in five years. Water source: there is a water shortage in my community right now. Sewage lagoon: decanting problems earlier and earlier every year because the community’s.... Our graveyard’s full. We have nowhere to put our deceased and our loved ones. The high cost of living in regard to the Power Corporation and putting it onto our people, trying to get gasification for my community of Tuk….
This is a back door also, Mr. Speaker, in regard to the global warming that we’ve been having every year. That’s why I’m supporting it today. But it doesn’t mean I support everything in this budget. I want to let the colleagues across the floor know, and I’ll be fighting line by line against the layoffs
and for better things in my community and the communities that I serve in the NWT as a whole.