Two thousand people in five years is part of a broader strategy where there’s an enormous focus by this Assembly now and in the past, but definitely going forward on the cost of living. That is where we’re going to want to make the investments in critical economic infrastructure, infrastructure like the Fibre Optic Link, infrastructure like the energy infrastructure where we want to go into the thermal communities and come up with ways to cut the cost by getting folks off diesel with biomass and solar and batteries, other alternative energies, LNG where it’s appropriate, as well as the other infrastructure that’s going to help promote economic conditions in a couple of big roads. There’s the Contwoyto-Tibbitt Lake ice road and converting that to an all-weather road. It’s the next link from Wrigley to Norman Wells and, of course, we also have, in the Tlicho region, the road from NICO Mines up through Whati that we’re putting in an all-weather road. All those things there will combine to create stronger conditions for economic growth and people coming here because they can make money and there’s an affordable cost of living. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 675-17(5): Population Growth Strategy
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2015. See this statement in context.
Question 675-17(5): Population Growth Strategy
Oral Questions
February 19th, 2015
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