Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Premier stated in this House last week, the BIP policy is probably one of the best policies this government has ever created; so I am going to start there. The thing about BIP is that BIP was created for for-profit business-related activities, and it is there to help entrepreneurial-based businesses. Competing with NGOs is a tough business, because they do not pay any income tax; they get other sources of government funding, a number of them; they get a lot of stuff in kind for rent and different things as such from various people and stakeholders and Government of the Northwest Territories, in some cases. It makes it tough for an entrepreneurial-based business to compete with this, and that is why it is in the clause. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Wally Schumann on Question 122-18(3): Procurement Policies And Impacts On Non-Governmental Organizations
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2018. See this statement in context.
Question 122-18(3): Procurement Policies And Impacts On Non-Governmental Organizations
Oral Questions
February 19th, 2018
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