Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I should clarify in response that FMBS has done a report but not on the latest change from 8.3 to 8.9. I believe it was done in 2000, but Mr. Cleveland can give details as to the work that was done. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there are a number of initiatives that would be undertaken. Number one is first the employees will have a chance to take in the survey and the results of that. There will be a number of formal discussions. One through unit staff meetings is an initial phase, up to a formal discussion, one through unit staff meetings is our initial phase up to a formal get-together of a large number of staff with both the Bureau of Statistics that did the initial survey and the other consultant that did the second survey to sit down and go over those results, and then...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the report does not go to the issue of the Minister and his deputy minister. It goes to the policies that we have in place, the programs and it is very specific to that situation. I would be prepared to sit down with committee to go over it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, for more of the detail, we will go to the Minister responsible for ITI.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think the Government of the Northwest Territories overall can show across a whole number of departments we've become very involved, whether it's a youth initiative through Municipal and Community Affairs, through additional funding through Education, Culture and Employment, and some of our programs that we offer through the Department of Health and Social Services. There has been a lot of initiatives focussed on youth and trying to lift up their esteem so that they can be more involved in their community, as well as leadership programs, and we will...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to clarify this position, there are a number of different reports. There is the 2005 implementation one; the 2005 Hackett review of the situation and the issue that was raised in the Assembly about the information being let out about our employees through our system. That incident or the situation that we reviewed was to do with information being let go and if it was a breach of any of our protocols or policies. That is the one I am speaking of. There is an additional report coming that will be a more encompassing one and that is still in the works. So the one...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I thank the Member for her comments but, at the same, I have to state that she has as well. This project has been under some review for quite some time. In fact, 2005-06 was when the Department of Health and Social Services started working with the Yellowknife Association of Concerned Citizens for Seniors and looking at the planning and design of this facility. When I became involved, there was a concern that this project had grown substantially and became unaffordable. At that point, I decided that we needed to sit down again with the group to revise...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have worked with communities, we've heard a message that a lot of communities need to take care of issues in their communities, so we've put a lot of our resources into community efforts and staff in communities to help that first line response. There's also a process established where people can call in and make a call if they feel that they don't want to approach somebody in their community directly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Member is right and we do, through this whole process, sit down with committee initially to get some input and if there is a request for information, work on getting it together. But we just sat down with committee on Thursday and have requested that information as we do from the appropriate departments. As we heard, the Minister is prepared to sit down with committee and provide that information. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, more on the serious side of our transition, we can’t turn the clock back to 1997 or 1998 when the decision was made at the time to customize the program to fit our processes as the Government of the Northwest Territories. Hindsight being 20/20, if we could do that again, we would stay with the pure form of the program and we would adopt our processes to fit it which would provide for a much cleaner process. Will that stop absolutely everything from occurring? As those of us who have home computers realize, that’s not necessarily going to be the case....