Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to seek unanimous consent to return to Item 6 on the Order Paper, oral questions.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the Premier for those answers. What is the next thing on the Premier’s agenda with respect to this file? What’s up and coming and what do we have in our ability, within our ability…I want to say arsenal of tactics of things we can do. We’ve heard everything from taking down the flag of Canada to putting up a bronze statue. No, that one we don’t take seriously.

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But we’re desperate. Desperate times call for desperate measures. What is the next thing on the Premier’s agenda and what do we reasonably have in our control to advance this? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Premier, Joe Handley. You have heard the Members’ statements on this side of the House. I should say, Mr. Speaker, the Premier has heard the Members’ statements on this side of the House today and I think that it would be hard to argue that time is of the essence when it comes to getting a fair deal on resource revenue sharing with Ottawa. I would like to ask the Premier what he can tell us that would indicate to us that he agrees that this has to be the highest priority of this government at this time? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we’re having a theme day, as you can tell, on resource revenue sharing. We’ve been talking about this for a long time. On the plus side, we’ve got a lot of resources from which to derive revenue in the Northwest Territories. Not every jurisdiction has that, so let’s lay that out first and count our blessings. We’ve got the resources. We have enough resources to make revenue sharing a win-win for everyone: for Canada, for our territory, for aboriginal governments and their aspirations.

My worry, Mr. Speaker, is that we are in an extremely vulnerable situation...

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Is the committee agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. speaker, this has been a good discussion here today and I am happy to see it’s coming onto the floor of this House, because in committee we talk about resource revenue sharing a fair amount. I won’t give you any of the details, of course, because that’s against the rules, but some of the quality of debate that sometimes goes on behind closed doors, I am glad to see it’s coming onto the floor of the House here because northerners need to hear where we stand on this.

The resource revenue sharing aspect of our aspirations here quite often overlaps and is...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to suggest to the Premier that if this…I do know Mr. Gerein, with all due respect, and we don't want to take away from the good work that he's done here at all. I had honestly forgotten about him though; I haven't seen him for a long time. Mr. Speaker, we have appointed…On the energy file for example, we appointed a very high profile Conservative. I think Peter Lougheed did some work for our government on some previous file. It seems that when the federal government appoints somebody like Harvie Andre or David Petersen or somebody like...

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. The Member is seeking unanimous consent to have the schedule to the motion be read and printed in Hansard in its entirety. Are there any nays? There are no nays.

12. Behchoko

Consisting of all that portion of the Northwest Territories bounded as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the 11605 meridian of longitude and the 6253 parallel of latitude; thence east along the 6253 parallel of latitude to its intersection with the 11555 meridian of longitude; thence south along the 11555 meridian of longitude to its intersection with the 6249 parallel of latitude...

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. For general comments I have Mr. Miltenberger.

Don’t…Anyway, I don’t have anybody else on my list right now for general comments.