Thank you, Mr. Chair. I look forward to the additional information the Minister can provide to us just to continue supporting this program in our communities in our region.
I just want to conclude that from the support that we received from oil companies, I know that in the Sahtu with the breakfast food program, I know Husky Energy has contributed to their communities for a breakfast program, and I want to state for the record that some of these oil companies have done some good in our communities such as the breakfast program for the families. As children, they don’t know. Food is food. They don’t know which food is coming from where. The oil companies also contribute to the communities for hand games and other functions, search and rescue for our loved ones who are lost in the Mackenzie River, building of a cultural moose skin boat.
I just want to be very careful and tell this government here that if we’re going to look at something, I guess we need to look at all industry, not just companies such as fossil fuel companies. We need to look at mining companies, look at technology companies, look at fast food restaurants. Everything. We need to look at everything if we’re going to do it.
I know there are some very strong feelings for some people on oil companies, but we need to be careful, especially in our region where we depend on them. I’ll leave it to the good people on this side here of the government to look at how we go about it, because Mr. Bromley is right that young kids are very impressionable. We’ve seen some of the stuff that we’ve given in school or whatever, especially with sports…(inaudible)... I just want to state to the department that our industry in the Sahtu is oil and gas and they’re not all bad. We certainly benefit
from them supplying our school, also for additional support in education and food.
I wanted to make a comment. I don’t need a response from the Minister. That’s all I wanted to say.