Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair, and I will be very quick. The easiest thing for this government to do would have been to say, okay, well, we will do nothing. We had a lot of people working on this, trying to mitigate some of the impact, but the easiest thing to do would have been to just sit back, do nothing, and let the federal government put their backstop in. Then this government would have been accused of not doing anything and letting the federal government just come in and impose their backstop on us without trying to work for the people of the Northwest Territories and help mitigate some of those impacts. I believe that is what we did. Again, as I said before, Mr. Chair, is it perfect? It could use some work. I think the Member from Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh was asking before about the election, and, you know, if a new federal government came in and decided that they were going to repeal the carbon tax, well, it's not a tax that we wanted, and we would make amendments to our -- I would assume that the future government would make an amendment to their legislation so quickly it would probably be one of the fastest pieces of legislation ever to go through this Assembly, and rightfully so, and rightfully so. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Robert C. McLeod on Committee Motion 178-18(3): tanding Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of Bill 42: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products Tax Act and Bill 43: An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act - Government Response, Carried
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Committee Motion 178-18(3): tanding Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of Bill 42: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products Tax Act and Bill 43: An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act - Government Response, Carried
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