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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

With that, I will allow the Minister to respond and then I will recognize the clock. Mr. Minister.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

Mr. Chairman, I know in the past, one of the ways we try to work with communities that didn’t have LHOs is work out what we call community service agreements with them that they have sort of a... Give them $10,000 or $15,000 and let them hire somebody internally that work with the local regional staff. When they come in, they have somebody there that they can talk to, sort of a liaison position for those communities.

I think that communities, if they realize that they have a say and they basically have a stake in the infrastructure that is in their communities, you will see them take better...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

Mr. Yakeleya.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regard to this department and its portfolio, yes, we have challenges, but I think also we have to work together to find solutions to some of our challenges. I think that in regard to the area of finding revenues in regard to CMHC, again, that’s a national problem. I think it’s a $3 billion problem across Canada, and I think we’re all in the same boat on that one, and I think it’s just going to take a national outcry to get the federal government to admit that they have made a mistake.

Again, I think we do have to be cognizant in the North that we have to find offsetting...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

Mr. Polakoff.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Human Resources.

1.

How many of the government’s, including boards and agencies, indigenous Aboriginal employees received training within the last two years?

2.

How many of the government’s, including boards and agencies, P2 and P3 employees received training within the last two years?

3.

How many indigenous Aboriginal employees were promoted to or successfully competed for senior positions, in 2009-2010?

4.

How many P2 and P3 employees were promoted to or successfully competed for senior positions in 2009-2010?

Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

Moving on to page 5-47, information item, executive, operations summary, Mr. Bromley.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are directed to the Premier in regard to the long-outdated Wildlife Act provisions that have been waiting in some cases some 17 years. By way of minor amendments to the Wildlife Act it was 1994. Those small amendments were more in line with the Inuvialuit Agreement. The Inuvialuit Agreement has been in place for some 27 years, yet a lot of the elements of those agreements have not been enacted and I think it’s more important that... People have been waiting a long time to see the Wildlife Act revisions take place and take hold and come before this House and...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

Okay we are on page 5-43, corporate summary, agreed?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 41)

I’d like to ask the Minister what this government is doing to enhance Aboriginal employees in the government so that they can see their wages increase by offering them education and skill development so they are able to move up the ladder, be on the same wages as the people they’re working with in the same room, yet we don’t have this discretion between one level and another. How much money are we spending to enhance the Aboriginal employees in this government to make sure they are getting the fair treatment as everyone else in the government services?