Jane Groenewegen

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. The next department that’s up is the Legislative Assembly. I’d like to ask Speaker Jacobson if he’d like to make opening comments.

Does committee agree that we have concluded consideration of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources?

Thank you. Page 1-21, Legislative Assembly, activity summary, expenditures on behalf of Members, operations expenditure summary, $7.934 million.

What is the wish of committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Mr. Speaker, I will try and be more brief. I’m sorry. It doesn’t seem like there would be much incentive for directors or people in management positions to identify obsolete positions within their organization. Really, I don’t know what incentive there would be to report that because that means less people working for them. That might diminish their role as director. I know that sounds like kind of a sinister conclusion, but what incentive would senior managers have to identify positions that are no longer needed or not busy enough to constitute a full-time job? Thank you.

The motion is carried.

---Carried

Page 1-17, Legislative Assembly, activity summary, Office of the Speaker, operations expenditure summary, $338,000.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for whoever wants to answer them. I’m not sure if it would be the Minister of Human Resources or the Premier.

We talk often in this House about the growth in the public service at headquarters. I have talked about my experience on the occasional visit to an office in one of our ivory towers here in Yellowknife where I walk down hallways and through cubicles and try to find somebody that’s a receptionist or somebody that’s in charge. Let’s just say, there are hundreds and hundreds of public servants in Yellowknife here at headquarters.

We talk about...

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. We will be sure now we have all of that on the record. Mr. Menicoche.