Thank you, Madam Chair. I’ll just go through the list as I made notes. The issue of the tradition of no shoes or not having new shoes and breaking with tradition, in fact I thank Mr. Bouchard, the Member for Hay River North. He sent me over a couple of printouts that he obviously got off the Internet that shows in fact over the last 40 or 50 years the majority of the federal Finance Ministers didn’t in fact get new shoes. In fact, nobody is quite sure where this tradition started, it seems. In regard to the tradition here, I know it is a tradition but it was my sense that we are asking people and governments and communities for two years of fiscal discipline and we have to focus on the things that we have to do not that would be nice to do. While it would be nice to have a new pair of shoes, I’ll save that for years three and four when we will be in fact able to put the fruits of our labour over the next two years to good use and it will be part of a symbolic recognition that we are now in a position where buying some new shoes fits in with the extra money that we want to put to use in infrastructure.
Michael Miltenberger on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on May 24th, 2012. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
May 23rd, 2012
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