Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Town of Norman Wells feel very strongly that with the situation that happened in the town, the situation that was occurring that this government wasn’t there for them. They had to dig in their own bank account and take out the money and say, we will pay for the Hercules. We will pay for propane tanks. We will do this. The government did not come up and say, we will help you. To make insults worse, they said no, you are not eligible for extraordinary funding to help offset this here.
It’s a good thing they had strong financial planning that they were able to do this. That’s what they’re asking when they come to this situation, that the Government of the Northwest Territories is there for them when they do their conversion to what energy sources they are going to use. That’s what they want to know. They haven’t yet got it from this government. They committed to help them with energy planning, but they haven’t got to the $64 million question.
Will you be there for us when they want to convert and that tap gets turned off by Imperial Oil? They haven’t had an answer yet from the territorial government, even the federal government.