To dismiss out of hand the initiatives to become more efficient in our hiring, to empower our people to go down south on hard-to-fill positions to be able to make on-the-spot job offers, to make us more competitive in terms of how we do that, to say that the Nominee Program that will hopefully increase the number of seats available with the expedited process, cut the times down to six months would help bring, hopefully, hundreds of people into the Northwest Territories, plus their families is not worth the effort, I think doesn’t do justice to the complexity and the going back to the issue of let’s just tax the small diminishing population that we do have in the hopes that somehow we can generate the amount of revenue that we need. What we need is an expanded population, expanded tax base that’s going to create more tax revenue, more people with jobs, families here using our services, driving up the quality of living in the Northwest Territories and giving us the capacity to do things we need to do.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 597-17(5): Expanding Tax Revenues
In the Legislative Assembly on February 11th, 2015. See this statement in context.
Question 597-17(5): Expanding Tax Revenues
Oral Questions
February 10th, 2015
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