Thank you, Madam Speaker. I don't have anything new to add really to what my colleagues here have been already saying. I care a lot about public safety. It's something I've always incorporated into my work, and I will still continue to do so. At a young age, I even took an oath to protect it. I hear and see the need in this territory, and do I think that this additional money that's going to be spent is going to improve the safety or protect us better from COVID? No, I don't. I am also often hit up for money to help people fill their fuel tanks or buy groceries for their children. I'm sure it's something everybody in this room also experiences on a regular basis. While it's hard to stand up and say that I don't support this because as a result, some of the initiatives I really believe in, like the policing initiative, I will be voting against them, as well. However, how it's presented, I can't in good faith vote now to increase government employment given the needs of our territory. As I said yesterday, a couple million dollars that's earmarked for a few managers' salaries and office space, not when I look around and see that people don't even have proper housing. I won't be supporting this supplementary. Thanks.
Katrina Nokleby on Bill 21: Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2020-2021, Carried
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Bill 21: Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2020-2021, Carried
Third Reading Of Bills
November 4th, 2020
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