Jane Groenewegen
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Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 66)
Thank you, Mr. Aumond. Mr. Bromley.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 66)
Agreed. Thank you. Bill 43 is now deemed ready for third reading. Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Thank you, senior officials. I will now ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.
We will now return to our main estimates. We were working on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. I’d like to ask Minister Miltenberger if he’d like to bring witnesses into the Chamber.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 66)
Thank you, Mr. Aumond. Mr. Dolynny.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 66)
Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Bromley.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 66)
Thank you. Bill 43, An Act to Amend the Borrowing Authorization Act, as a whole.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 65)
We will commence with that after a brief recess.
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Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 65)
I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order for today and ask what is the wish of the committee. Ms. Bisaro.
Debates of
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My Member’s statement yesterday was two and a half minutes but it seemed to be like two and a half seconds, so I wanted to take this opportunity… I’m going to break from my colleagues on the education and I want to talk about one of my favourite subjects again today: Hay River. One I really don’t need any notes to talk about.
I pride myself in being a very optimistic person. I’m not pessimistic. When people say, oh, gloom and doom, I go, hey, look it, think about that nice $35 million mid-life retrofit to the Diamond Jenness Secondary School. Think about that new $65...
Debates of
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Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Is committee agreed?
Debates of
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Oh, the list could go on. I try to focus on the positive, and these are good projects and they tide us over from year to year and season to season and they provide good infrastructure. But the problem is that if Hay River is truly the hub of the North, we cannot afford the erosion of those things that make Hay River what it is. Those things are the lake, the river, the rail, the road.
Right now, to get a bunch of train cars from High Level to Hay River, because of a lack of investment in the infrastructure for the rail, you can go 10 kilometres an hour. It takes two days to get from High Level...