Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Next I have on my list Mr. Bromley. It’s the second round, but go ahead, Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. I have Mr. Bromley.

Thank you. I don’t really appreciate the tone in the fact that I should be appreciative of the positions that I have. The remark is that, well, if I don’t like it, well, the positions could be somewhere else and in Yellowknife. I think there’s a bit of an undertone there and I don’t appreciate that context. The concept is where the activity is happening is where the positions should be. I don’t think the department has justified why those positions are happening in the Beaufort-Delta, especially nine positions. We’re over doubling the amount of positions we currently have. I guess population...

Thank you. Sergeant-at-Arms, escort the witnesses in. Thank you.

Minister Ramsay, I’ll get you to introduce your witnesses one more time for the record, please.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Oh, sorry, Mr. Bromley, it’s been a long day. Sorry.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Deputy Minister Vician.

Sorry, Mr. Dolynny. I need you to read the motion into the record.

Thank you. I appreciate the Minister’s comments and I appreciate the Beaufort-Delta, I have lots of friends in the area, it will probably make it less now that I’m bringing this up. But the potential of the Beaufort-Delta, and the Minister said it himself, we don’t have the responsibility for offshore right now. So I don’t even know how we justify putting those nine positions into the Beaufort-Delta when we know that the activity currently, right now, is in the Norman Wells and in the Sahtu area. We have specialists in the Hay River office that are working on some of that as well. So those are...