Robert Bouchard

Hay River North

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Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Thank you, Ms. Hilderman. Mr. Bromley.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 188-17(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 2015-2016, and would like to report progress. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Thank you, Ms. Hilderman. Mr. Bromley.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Thank you, deputy minister. Mr. Bromley.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Thank you, Ministers. Thank you, witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber.

What is the wish of the committee? Ms. Bisaro.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Mr. Speaker, I’m not looking for the summer students, I’m looking for students who are in their third and fourth year, so they have an opportunity to come back. We have a goal to have 2,000 more people come to the Northwest Territories, and I think getting our students back to the Northwest Territories is key.

Is the department willing to go and talk to those students and tell them we have certain jobs, we have some internship jobs for you, so that they’re not looking to go? I’m not looking for summer jobs where we just say, well, you just apply. I want to know that we’re getting our students...

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Bromley.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

Page 337, Lands, operations, operations expenditure summary, $11.770 million. Mr. Bromley.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 68)

We’ll return to page 325, department as a whole, Department of Lands, $29.268 million.