Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Like my colleagues, I’d like to welcome everybody back to the session here today.
The Premier indicated in his sessional statement, today is the first day of our new government since devolution. An exciting time for the Northwest Territories. While I was home after spring session, everyone asked me: So, how is this going to affect us? So that was the concern from most of the public. That’s the thing going on. We sit here today, we have a lot of questions, we’ve made our statements. Really, what has changed in the government? It’s very subtle and we have a bunch of questions about how things are going to go forward.
The Premier indicated turning northern opportunities into prosperity. We are definitely looking forward to the new Northwest Territories through devolution, but we also have a bunch of questions. We’re going to have a bunch of questions during this session and going forward.
The review of legislation, how is that going to be done, how is that going to be effectively done so that the public and the Northwest Territories have input on the legislation coming forward? I guess I do have some concerns over a three-month period that’s mainly in the summer. I think we should be looking at a longer period of time so that people can react.
The other issues that are going forward is resource revenue sharing money. What are we going to do with that? What are we going to do with the Heritage Fund? The Premier indicated that we took over the federal jobs and I think that’s a consistency that probably a lot of people don’t see a lot of difference because they’re the same people, the same faces, but we also created a bunch of jobs. So I’m just wondering where those jobs are, have they been filled, and I guess I’ll have questions for the Premier later today. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. The Member for Range Lake, Mr. Dolynny.
