Mr. Speaker, The Government of the Northwest Territories has responsibility that covers 360 degrees of the compass. We have to allocate money. We have legal responsibilities, mandated responsibilities. We have responsibilities that are there by choice and by need. Our challenge is going to be, as we do for every business planning process, to make those choices. There is discussion in the House that the Member for Kam Lake pointed out. We have many challenges ahead of us, unmet needs, pressures to contain our costs and control our expenditures at the same time, trying to look at revenues but not raise the tax burden on Northerners. We have to make those choices. We have been making them collectively for the 15 years I have been here and all the years before that this Assembly has been in existence. I want to point out once again that we have managed to do that successfully during the three most turbulent years in our economic history since the 1920s. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 120-16(5): Proposed Changes To Supplementary Health Benefits Program
In the Legislative Assembly on May 13th, 2010. See this statement in context.
Question 120-16(5): Proposed Changes To Supplementary Health Benefits Program
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May 12th, 2010
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