David Ramsay

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Thank you, committee. We'll now deal with the clause by clause. Is committee agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, like I said, we can’t afford to keep flying nurses in from Honduras and Newfoundland and paying the high cost of agency nurses. What the government should be doing is looking at creative ways to try to get more nurses to live here. How about a targetted campaign to newly graduated nurses in southern Canada where we would sign them up to return a service agreement for four, five or six years and, in return, the Government of the Northwest Territories could look at paying off their student loans? They would come here and some of them would stay here, Mr...

Does committee agree?

Bill as a whole?

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Thank you. We'll deal with this in a reversed fashion, folks. On page 3, we'll deal with the schedule first, if we could. So make sure committee is on page 3. To the schedule, part 1, vote 1, operations expenditures, total supplementary appropriation for operations expenditures, $13.486 million.

Thank you. We will bring in witnesses, Mr. Sergeant-at-Arms.

Thank you, committee. Thank you, Mr. Minister. If you could, would you please introduce your witnesses?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Bill 9, Write-off of Debts Act, 2007-2008; Bill 10, Forgiveness of Debts Act, 2007-2008; and Bill 17, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2006-07, and would like to report that Bills 9, 10 and 17 are ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, committee. Now we will go with the clause by clause. Clause 1.