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Debates of , (day 13)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to speak again today about the Deh Cho Bridge project. In May, Members passed a motion in this House to come clean on what the costs and benefits would be for the proposed Deh Cho Bridge. Mr. Speaker, we had a briefing in July behind closed doors and as protocol would dictate, I can’t publicly discuss what things I learned at this meeting. Mr. Speaker, the fact is, there was nothing new. The public still doesn’t know what the impact is going to be and all we know is that the Deh Cho Bridge project is going ahead. The Premier and government have been quite...

Debates of , (day 13)

I forgot, Mr. Chairman, how fast government moves. I’m sorry. Pardon me, but something like this you would think would be fairly straightforward, it would be easy to get. They probably already have an itinerary, they know who they’ve talked to, they know who the meetings are with, who invited them, who’s going. Just give us that information. That’s not too much to ask. Three days is a long time to me, Mr. Chairman, to be able to get that information. What are we expected to do, just say it's okay? We don’t have any information, but they promised us some and, yes, it’s okay. It just...

Debates of , (day 13)

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Motion is in order. It's not debatable. All those in favour? Opposed? Motion is carried.

---Carried

I'll now rise and report progress.

Debates of , (day 13)

Yes, trying to get her out of town. The interesting thing, Mr. Chairman, is we just haven’t got any detail, any level of detail on who is going, what the itinerary is, who invited us, who we’re seeing, who's going. I think in isolation of that information, it makes it difficult to make a decision. I like to make a decision based on something. I just don’t want to say yes, it’s okay, go ahead. I haven’t seen, like I said, except for an invitation letter, that’s the extent of the information that the government has put forward to our committee and to Regular Members. So to support a trade...

Debates of , (day 13)

Thank you, committee. Now if we could go back to page 1, Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2007-2008, to the preamble. Oh sorry; before we deal with the preamble, we’ll go clause by clause. Clause 1.