Thank you, Madam Chair. It's not going to benefit my riding. Where is the geotech work in regard to this? These long-term beds, you've got 25 beds in Inuvik right now. You're going to get another 48. That's 78 beds. That's probably 200 jobs that's going to create in Inuvik for this project. Now, what are you going to do with the elders in my riding in regard to bringing them in? I brought this up at the start. It's like you're going to be plucking elders out of the community again, when we know the cost of travel between our communities is over, probably, $2,000 from Sachs Harbour, Ulukhaktok, and Paulatuk, when we should be trying to put a smaller building in the community. Forty-eight beds, that's kind of a big thing. I'm sorry to bring it up like that, Madam Chair. For myself, how I look at it, it's residential school all over again, taking people out of their homes. Families want to take care of our loved ones, our elders. Being an Inuvialuit, you should know that in regard to that. I don't approve of these 48 beds. I need five beds, six beds, in Ulukhaktok. I need the same thing in Paulatuk to take care of our own. Again, it's all the bigger centres that, the blink of an eye, they're going to be ready to spend their money. For us, it's a have-not riding right now. It's not right. I really want to think before, if they didn't start their geotech, maybe they should downsize just a little bit, here, throw 30 beds or 20 beds you don't need,and have 45, not 78. I'm appalled the way that things are going, that this government, the way they are seeing how they're treating our elders. Like I said, we want to take care of our own. Inuvialuit, we take care of our own. I really think this should be rethought instead of just throwing another 48 beds because you could throw 48 beds that was done by the last government. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Jackie Jacobson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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