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Prosperity Mine on MP’s bucket list Monica Lamb-Yorski Staff Writer Wednesday’s throne speech sets out a path for the next two years, said Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris. “Our government is continuing to concentrate on creating jobs, it’s
a priority for the prime minister,” Harris said Thursday. His riding has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Canada, he added. “We’ve all been through the pit of the depression and come out stronger than ever.” Attributing the recovery to the
spirit of the people living in the region, Harris also credited the federal government for investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the region in both infrastructure and spending that created jobs. “In the throne speech yesterday the prime minister spoke about the $70 billion infrastructure commit-
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ment our government made with the economic action plan,” Harris said. “That’s still got a ways to go. I think somewhere around $50 billion has been spent.” Harris also said the New Prosperity Mine is on his bucket list and he plans to keep fighting for it to open.