Thank you, Madam Chair. Over the years, we see southern contractors come in here, and we always think they are going to hire local people. There are promises that they are going to use local businesses. Then, year after year, we wonder why that hasn't happened. We still haven't learned yet. So, I think it is important that we really look at making sure that our contractors are working first and our people are working first. If our contractors need help, then they can slowly bring in the people they need if we don't have them here. If we have to do that, like I said yesterday, through negotiated contracts or whatever we have to use, we have the tools here. We have everything we need. We just have to start using them and not fight about it. I would ask the Premier to make a commitment that we will look at those tools that we have and see the benefit that they will bring in this economy because, right now, the economy is in the dump. The only way that we are going to make sure that our people are working is that we do it ourselves. We can't count on southern contractors to do it for us. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Rocky Simpson on Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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