Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When I visited Colville Lake with the Member, the community members did indicate that they’d like to work on some sort of reintegration plan to have inmates from Colville Lake transition back into the community. There wasn’t a lot of talk about the detail, but since then I have received a letter from the chief and council of Colville Lake and we are in the process of drafting a response to that letter saying that we’re very interested in actually finding some way to work together, or actually just working together to develop some sort of reintegration plan in...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The service-level agreements are a critical component and we do need to get those in place. Right now we’re working with Health and Social Services to set up some service-level agreements which we’re going to be piloting. We’re having those negotiations and discussions this week and hopefully we’ll have those in place soon. We wish to pilot through the 2012-2013 fiscal year and then assess, figure out what works and what doesn’t, fix the more appropriate, and start implementing them across the government over the following years.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are still trying to figure that out. If we’re going to invest a significant amount of money putting in pellet technology into somewhere like the Sahtu, let’s say Norman Wells as an example, the only way pellets could get up there would be in the winter by winter road or by barge in the summertime, but there’s no current supplier of pellets in the Sahtu. There’s nobody in the business of selling or providing a quantity of pellets. We would need to have certainty that there was someone who could get that to us on a regular basis so that if we turned over to pellets as an...

Mr. Chair, that is the intent for this fall. Location is yet to be determined. Training will likely take place in Yellowknife for Yellowknife employees, but it is also going to be available on line. It will be digital as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The GNWT has accepted and utilizes the National Building Code.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The position is currently out for competition. We hope to have it filled very shortly.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With me, immediately to my right is Paul Guy, the deputy minister. On my left is Steve Lewis, the director of corporate services; and on our far right is Laurie Gault, the director of the Technology Service Centre.

Mr. Chair, there are a significant number of accommodation cases in the Government of the Northwest Territories. We have our officers and staff working with the different departments to accommodate those individuals. As with any accommodation, it takes work on behalf of the employee being accommodated, the department that is doing the accommodation and HR providing the advice with respect to the policies and procedures.

Our first priority is to get some of this backlog down and to get as many people accommodated as possible, understanding that it does take all three parties to find a reasonable...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I actually think the TSC chargebacks appear on 7-13 in the correct line as opposed to HR where it was in the wrong line under TSC chargebacks under $951,000. The $951,000 on this page is for computer hardware and software. The reason that TSC chargebacks would fall on this department is because this department is still utilizing the services of the TSC to manage and administer computer services. So like every other department, we have to pay our share of the TSC services.

That would be $916,000, similar to previous year.