Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s been four years since I’ve wanted to see a Minister’s statement on dredging the port at Hay River. Amen. Hallelujah. We’ve finally got a statement that made that point.
We know the federal government is still not there and now at least the territorial government is listening. The crack of the door is open. Now we need to kick that door open and get this project going.
Last week I was talking about the fact that we are building roads, which used to be a federal responsibility, 75 federal, 25 for the territorial. If our federal partners aren’t going to kick in the door and get this thing going, let’s throw our 25 percent in. Let’s get a project where we can get this dredging of the Hay River done.
I appreciate the statement and I appreciate the gesture, but a meeting? In four years it took us to get a statement that we’re going to have a meeting? We need to get more results than that. We need to have a plan. I’ve been asking this territorial government to come together with a plan on the costs and how we can go forward from there. We need more than just a meeting. We need to get results.
I will have questions for the Minister on how we get this done sooner than later. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Amen. Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Member for Deh Cho, Mr. Nadli.
