David Ramsay

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’ll try to get in as much as I can before the Minister starts.

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I just want to start off with saying I know how important advanced education and careers are to people, but what I think happened in the mid-1990s is starting to come back to haunt the Northwest Territories, and that is funding was at such a level where it came out of schools and basically I believe the education system got it in the mid-90s and the first things to go when dollars were tight were things like industrial arts, music, home economics and now it’s kind of come full circle. We’re...

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Hawkins.

Page 9-46, work performed on behalf of others. That continues on to page 9-48, for a total of $9.905 million. Agreed?

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Page 9-33, income security, operations expenditure summary, $61.365 million.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Zoe.

Infrastructure, contributions, $760,000.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development a couple of questions with regard to some comments that were made at a recent press conference, in which the Governor of Alaska, Mr. Frank Murkowski, was seen as saying that the Mackenzie Valley gas project was stalled. Even the Premier of the Yukon, Mr. Fentie, who was also present at the press conference, didn’t dispute the fact that this was stalled. I am just wondering if the Minister can answer a question. The first question is what is his opinion? Is our gas project...

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Minister.