Statements in Debates
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If the Member is looking for a connection in the Department of Justice, there isn’t one there. We have the main estimates before us today. The Member talked about a director’s position. We’d look at putting somebody in there in an acting capacity. We’d look at perhaps training somebody. There are transfer assignments. There’s maternity leave, the use of casual, relief workers. The money that we do have is certainly earmarked for compensation and benefits to our employees.
Madam Chair, currently 12 communities are without a detachment. Gameti and Wrigley do not have detachments but they have dedicated members for their community, and I believe Tsiigehtchic is in that same situation, as well, where they have RCMP officers in McPherson that are dedicated to the community of Tsiigehtchic.
Of those other communities, all have fewer than 150 residents.
We do have, in addition to this money which is there to help operators with small equipment purchases, about $800,000 under another line item in the main estimates to help us get an on-the-land program. This is a small component of that, but there are other components to it as well on other pages. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Those positions are all funded. Thank you.
I thought we may have covered this off previous to this page, but yes, we can provide that information.
Thank you, Madam Chair. The integrated case management is under community justice.
Thank you. I thank the Member for his observations and his questions, and that’s something that we will consider. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The assumption the Member is making is that the vacant positions are vacant for the entire year. That, of course, is not the case. That’s not reality, but I’ll go to Ms. Schofield for a further explanation.
Thank you, Madam Chair. There are protocols in place, and as far as service time to various communities across the Northwest Territories, I would be more than happy to get that level of detail for the Member. Thank you.
It would be the department. Thank you.