If the Member is wanting to know what we were doing to attract people to move to the Northwest Territories, he should have asked that. The Minister of Finance did announce in the previous budget that we are undertaking a program to attract more people to come and work and live in the Northwest Territories. So we are working and signed an MOU with diamond mines, we have set targets to increase the number of workers that live in the South and getting them to move north. We have also signed on to immigrant nominee programs so we can get people who are moving to Canada to come and work in the Northwest Territories, recognizing what the Member has said, that for every person that moves to the Northwest Territories, that results in significant increases to our territorial formula financing.
Bob McLeod on Question 30-16(5): Efforts To Attract Business Investment
In the Legislative Assembly on March 3rd, 2010. See this statement in context.
Question 30-16(5): Efforts To Attract Business Investment
Oral Questions
March 2nd, 2010
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