David Ramsay
Statements in Debates
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Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.
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Not previously authorized, $1.023 million.
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Not previously authorized, $2.431 million.
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Madam Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 1, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2005-2006, and would like to report that Bill 1 is ready for third reading and, Madam Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.
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Client services, not previously authorized, $3.113 million.
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Education and culture, special warrants, $1.491 million.
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Thank you, Minister Bell. Ms. Lee.
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Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Yakeleya.
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Total department, not previously authorized, $188,000.
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Thank you, Madam Speaker. Out of the $37 billion the federal government collects from the goods and services tax across the country, it is estimated the Northwest Territories pays about .002 percent of that. That amounts to about $60 million; $60 million that would certainly go a lot further here in the Northwest Territories than it does in Ottawa.
Madam Speaker, in order to keep the hard-earned dollars of territorial residents in the northern economy, I think the federal government should exempt us from paying the goods and services tax.
The goods and services tax is rumoured to cost about...