There are people who have a tremendous amount of money and time invested in buying trucks and being truck drivers and they depend a lot on the ice road season. This economic downturn that we’re experiencing right now may or may not be here next year at this time when the ice roads open. I think it’s important that from here forward we try to ensure that if there are trucks going up that road, they’re based in the Northwest Territories, they’re driven by drivers from the Northwest Territories, and any plan that the Minister can come up with would be welcome. I would like to ask him if he would be interested in developing some kind of strategy that would see northern truck drivers and northern trucks doing the majority of that work and not just northern-based companies who hire their trucks from the South.
David Ramsay on Question 332-16(3): Northern Truck Drivers And Trucks Serving Diamond Mines
In the Legislative Assembly on March 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 332-16(3): Northern Truck Drivers And Trucks Serving Diamond Mines
Oral Questions (Reversion)
March 11th, 2009
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