Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We’ve just had some discussion in this House about cost of energy, the fact that it’s driving Northerners away and it is crippling business. So one of the reasons we are very careful and we haven’t touched taxes for a number of years and we have looked at efficiencies is because we don’t want to add to the burden of business or to Northerners. We are spending millions on improving our energy efficiency and we are spending millions on looking at transmission line expansions, all tied to affecting the cost of living productively and to lower it. The issue of raising taxes, getting our fair share, we’ve had that discussion and we made a calculated decision that it is not in our best interest at this time to raise taxes. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 397-17(4): Institution Of Mineral Tax
In the Legislative Assembly on October 29th, 2013. See this statement in context.
Question 397-17(4): Institution Of Mineral Tax
Oral Questions
October 28th, 2013
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