Debates of March 11, 2013 (day 22)
MEMBER’S STATEMENT ON IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING CONNECTIONS TO SMALL COMMUNITIES
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I was pleased to see the signing of the devolution deal today. I know that over time we’ve always said as our government moves forward that we’ll have more money for our government, but I just want to speak about the things that we do today about flying to the smaller communities. We’re still having lots of different departments, for example, a community like Trout Lake will have three airplanes come in to the community, and we’ve spoken many times in this Assembly about coordinating those visits, even, indeed, with the federal government. It’s about coordinating and saving money for the budget for these departments and overall towards even the federal departments as well.
I just want to remind government again, that we have to coordinate these visits and get into the communities. Overall, we still have to be fiscally minded as we approach this. In the small communities, you see three planes fly in and it’s kind of a shame knowing that they’re all coming out of Fort Simpson and all on the same day, when we can coordinate these efforts, so I’d like to remind government to continue that practice.
Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Moses.