Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment and relate to my Member’s statement where I was talking about the reservists. Every other jurisdiction in this country with exception of the Northwest Territories has clauses within their Employment Standards Act which support reservists and their employers. I understand in the 15th Assembly there was some work done on the Employment Standards Act and at that time it was considered to put those clauses in our act. Unfortunately at the time there were no reservists so it was unnecessary.

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Okay, 4-8, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, information item, infrastructure investment summary.

Thank you, Premier Roland. We are on page 4-19, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, activity summary, implementation, operations expenditure summary, $664,000.

Page 2-30, Executive, activity summary, Cabinet support, grants and contributions, contributions, total contributions, $604,000.

Let’s move along to page 4-14, 4-15, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to take the opportunity to speak about the Yellowknife Company of the Royal Edmonton Regiment. This is a reserve unit whose creation was announced in June 2008 and whose first member began full-time work in June 2009. They had their headquarters grand opening at the Diamond Plaza on January 10, 2011.

The Yellowknife Company is the first Army Reserve Company to be based in the Northwest Territories and the only active reserve unit north of 60. It’s part of the federal government’s initiatives to increase the defence presence in the North and it’s meant to...

Thank you, Mr. Premier. Committee, are we agreed to proceed with detail on Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations?

Thank you, Premier Roland. We are on page 4-19, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Page 2-29, Executive, activity summary, Cabinet support, operations expenditure summary, $3.156 million.

[Microphone turned off] ...Intergovernmental Relations, activity summary, corporate management, grants and contributions, grants, $300,000.