Michael McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize a number of people from my community of Fort Providence, my home town. First of all, Trinette Constant, if she is still here. She is starting today as my CA and she is down for some training. Along with her is Stephen Farcy and the SAO from the Hamlet of Fort Providence, Susan Christie. Welcome. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the arrangement in Fort Liard is with the community's cooperative arrangement. The core needs assessment the Member has referred to is currently being finalized. We don’t have that information before us and ready for the House at this point. We will be tabling that document, hopefully before the end of our session. In terms of what is being allocated for Fort Liard, I don’t have that level of detail in front of me so I would have to take that question as notice, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Minister of Transportation’s Annual Report on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act (1990) for 2003. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it’s not very often I get a chance to recognize visitors in the gallery and I have quite a few people who are here from the different communities in my riding. I’d like to, I can’t see them here, but I have a classroom at the Aurora College in Fort Providence, they’re here with their instructor, Margaret Field: Anthony Bonnetrouge, Lance Minoza, Dion Elleze, Joseph Landry, Evelyn Constant, Veronica Gargan, Beverly Bouvier, Wilma Gargan and Wanda Minoza. Also from Fort Providence we have our SAO from the Hamlet of Fort Providence, Susan Christie. Also, the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to quickly say a few words. I’d like to first off welcome the many people from my riding to the Legislative Assembly. It’s good to see. It’s not very often I have people in the audience that are here and watching us as we conduct our business. I want to start off also by saying thank you and congratulations to you, Mr. Speaker, and also to our new Premier Joe Handley, who’s already setting a tough agenda. We really have our work cut out for us. Also, congratulations to all the new Ministers who were elected and to all the people that put their names forward. It...