I know I’ve had questions on this page or questions about Mr. Bromley’s comments, but I couldn’t help but hear him say that he is taking a ratio of government workers per population for the South Slave region which, in case he doesn’t know, Fort Smith region is not Hay River. That includes Fort Smith which, for all intents and purposes, is pretty much a government town compared to Hay River. It is a sad day that, after how many years of begging for a few decentralized positions out of Yellowknife, any Yellowknife MLA could not sit here and be very happy about some positions going out of here. If Yellowknife doesn’t think that they have a disproportionate amount of everything that this government spends money on, employs people in, then let’s have that debate in this House.
Thank you to this government that there are a few positions coming to a community like Hay River, Fort Smith and a few of the regional centres outside of Yellowknife. Good on this government. Like I said, it has been years of begging and cajoling. We finally have a government that is prepared to put their actions where they say their commitment is and we see this. It’s not large-scale, it’s small-scale, but at least it’s something and we’re happy about that. So I thank the government for that. But my goodness, to hear Mr. Bromley talk about the Fort Smith region as if it’s Hay River because we’re getting Business Incentive Policy jobs in Hay River, it’s sad.
Anyway, that’s all I have to say. Thank you.