Jane Groenewegen

I want to ask if anyone else sees a trend here. This disregard for a private sector company with years of experience and knowledge to bring to the costly and complicated science of fighting fires. This is the mindset of a government bent on increasing government while throwing out the private sector with potentially dire and irreversible consequences.

I pose the question: How does that jibe with the GNWT is open for business? The Northwest Territories is open for business investment and we travel all over the world with that message. How do these actions jibe with that? Mr. Speaker, there’s...

Question is being called. The motion is defeated.

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I will read this page again. Executive, operations expenditures, directorate, not previously authorized, $575,000.

Court services, not previously authorized, $7,000.

Total Department of Transportation, not previously authorized, $4.721 million. Agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today not to speak on the theme day today of hydraulic fracturing that has been very eloquently and adequately covered by my colleagues. I stand today on a matter that I consider very, very serious. I have said in the past, when we have considered leadership debates, that I am not a proponent of midterm reviews. If I have something to say, I will stand up and say it at the appropriate time. Today I’m going to do that. I am going to make commentary of one of my colleagues who sits in the Cabinet, a colleague who, like myself, is serving in his fifth term in this...

Agreed. Thank you. Community social programs, not previously authorized, $31,000.

Total Department of Public Works and Services, not previously authorized, negative $202,000.

Thank you, Premier McLeod. To the motion. Mr. Hawkins.

Agreed. Thank you. For the Department of Justice, operations expenditures, community justice and policing, not previously authorized, $318,000.

Marine, not previously authorized, $1,000. Agreed?