Thank you, Madam Chair. With all due respect, I wonder if the Minister's actually gone out and seen the roadway and looked at the amount of erosion that has occurred at that site in the last two years. And I think it's all pretty safe to say that it's not going to get any better. You know, I just have to reiterate I have no faith in the fact that this is a department that over four years has failed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in money to the point where the federal government has said they'll cut our funding off and we have to use pots that have already been promised to us but we get no new money promised because we can't spend what we've got. And then here I see that we're -- we've had money, we've known about this problem. I knew about this problem as a consultant in Fort Simpson when I worked there in 2012. So for us to now be sitting here waiting on NTPC to figure out what they're going to do with this falling down plant and can they salvage some of it because they have no financial stability, I have to wonder what the village of Fort Simpson is going to do. Yeah, I think that they're all going to find themselves with no power at some point in the next few years or a very piecemealed-together project. And, really, this is a failure of this department to exercise and to get their mandates and their work done. This department hasn't moved for four years. And that's not all the pandemic. That is not all the fires. That is a lack of will and push to get things done and get the money spent that could have kept our economy going through COVID and other things. I have nothing else to say. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Katrina Nokleby on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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