Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, you know, our oil and gas in Beaufort Delta, we have a lot of it. And it's quite concerning when you have another country trying to claim it. I guess, with the Arctic Council and stuff, we have to start discussions with Canada, with our Prime Minister in regarding in investing in the North, investing in the Western Arctic to have a port, a deep sea port, or able to bring in their ice breakers that they're building right now for the Arctic. We have two icebreakers that are -- that's happening. And, you know, getting our military more to the west with -- and it's not -- everything's in the east. We have nothing in the Western Arctic. We don't have no port, no -- nothing. We have the Rangers. That's it. We need to start looking at investment, Mr. Speaker, and I would like the Premier to bring that up with the Prime Minister and to work with our IRC and Yukon and to try to make something like that happen, because with the oil and gas jobs that we're not going to be Ottawa to ask them for handouts anymore, we'd be able to pay our own way. And people would have jobs. And we need jobs, Mr. Speaker. We're going through tough times. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Jackie Jacobson on Oral Question 735-19(2): Arctic Council and Arctic Sovereignty
In the Legislative Assembly on June 1st, 2021. See this statement in context.
Oral Question 735-19(2): Arctic Council and Arctic Sovereignty
Oral Questions
June 1st, 2021
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