Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Did you see the ghost of the family past or just a portrait of past Premiers on your way to the Chamber? On this Halloween I wish to go over some spooky details. Well, they’re not that scary. No Grudges or Annabelles here, just some cold hard facts.
Right now we have 79 students attending Aurora College or are enrolled in courses at the community learning centres. After reviewing the Sahtu oil and gas needs assessment like a treasure map, 68 percent of those positions for this industry are tied to some form of transportation work. Either heavy equipment or truck driving, the big wheels are moving.
Another financial figure that the count on Sesame Street would have fun counting, one, two, three, ninety-seven thousand, ha, ha, ha. That comes from the ConecoPhillips partnerships with this government portraying environment monitors in our region. Considering the magnifying glasses government is using for the environmental baseline studies, Mr. Miltenberger is no scrooge but, rather, a maverick with $4 million. What a treat.
We’re at the crossroads, Mr. Speaker, but with your steering the wheel of our session, and our Premier, Bob the Builder, hoping we’ll pile through the stormy seas with Polar Eggs from Roger Rabbit in Hay River and more mushrooms than Mario and Luigi. They’re fungi. Perhaps we should embrace
this time of change sort of like a baby when it needs a clean diaper. No, Mr. Speaker, I won’t go there. Let’s get back on track.
Where is Minister Ramsay, the explorer, and his oil and gas maps and the regs to guide us there? Here is the truth: The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim put our region in the driver’s seat. It’s given us a seat at the table, not the table of the last supper, because we know that we want to teach our people to fish rather than to bribe them with fish.
I hope we get a treat from this government, a technical institute for the Sahtu, and not a trick, because that would be cruel.
Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my Member’s statement.
---Unanimous consent granted