David Krutko

Mr. Yakeleya.

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...

Mr. Polakoff.

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.

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

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 My questions are directed to the Premier in regard to the long-outdated Wildlife Act provisions that have been waiting in some cases some 17 years.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...

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

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?

Minister of Housing.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is directed to the Minister of Human Resources. It’s in regard to my Member’s statement where I showed a wage disparity between P1s and P2s somewhere in excess of almost $20,000. These are employees of the government.

We just went through a major court case on pay equity across the country between the federal employees and Government of the Northwest Territories employees. It seems there’s a discretion between P1s and P2s. I’d like to ask the Minister of Human Resources why there is such a discretion between the P1 employees and P2 employees of an excess of...