Thank you,
Mr. Chairman. I just want to make an observation. It’s interesting that a Yellowknife MLA — where the community’s getting a bypass road, dementia centre, École St. Joseph, a new clinic, Stanton upgrades, to a total of many tens of millions of dollars — is making a motion that in effect pits two small communities against each other and stands back to see what happens. Which is fine; we’ll of course live with the will of this Legislature. It’s just an interesting dynamic when all of us who live outside of the big centre will be turning on each other, while the territorial capital, which gets by far the lion’s share of the capital budget, makes the motions to set that process in place.
As we keep open minds to look at all the options, one of the options that hasn’t been considered is we’re talking about repatriating a bunch of adults into a supportive living structure that has yet to be built. Has that been considered as a possibility for Arctic Tern? I don’t know. But clearly it’s a circumstance that strikes me as interesting and somewhat ironic. Of course, we will live with the vote of this Legislature. We’ll all move on past this, but as the Member for Thebacha, it struck me right off the bat that it’s an interesting dynamic as we all talk about the small communities and things in Yellowknife.