Mr. Speaker, I want to pick up on the questions I had earlier, but this time I’m going to ask the questions of the Minister of Finance.
The one thing I think residents here in the Northwest Territories have a difficult time with is that we ship our resources south — look at the Norman Wells Pipeline, the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project
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and then they get trucked back to
us, and our residents get charged exorbitant prices for the fuel once it gets back to the Northwest Territories. We have the resources here. That’s the thing I take issue with. I think we need to find a way and means to keep some of this resource here at home to feed our own residents.
I’d like to ask the Minister of Finance: in regard to regulating fuel prices here in the Northwest Territories, I’m wondering if the government has ever done any work in that area to look at the pros and cons of regulation of that industry, as they do in Atlantic Canada.