Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I won't keep everybody very long here. But what I really wanted to say here is there's zero guarantee that anybody in this room who is debating this right now will be here in six months. None. And so if it's important to anybody in this room, for example, that the revenue sharing from carbon tax goes to community governments, Indigenous governments, non-governmental organizations, then that needs to be in legislation. If it's not in legislation, we don't have the opportunity for changes to how that revenue sharing is happening to come forward in a bill. And that means that it doesn't have the opportunity to then go to committee where committee gets to look at it and from that process, members of the public get to participate in public hearings. We had the opportunity to hear from individual residents, from the NWT Senior's Society, from NWTAC, and from Indigenous governments on what they wanted to see within this bill. And if we don't have the opportunity to hear from people, we don't have the opportunity to really learn how it's working or how it's not working. And from there, we don't have the opportunity to uphold the democratic process and the beauty of consensus government where we get to have these conversations, and we don't get to have conversations to this extent about accountability of public dollars. So I think having it in the legislation is really important. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caitlin Cleveland on Committee Motion 376-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act - Rebate for Carbon Tax Revenues, Carried
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Committee Motion 376-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act - Rebate for Carbon Tax Revenues, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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