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Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 29)
Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Dolynny.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 29)
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Ramsay.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 29)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today will be to the Minister of Human Resources. What currently does the GNWT do to link students with job opportunities throughout the GNWT?
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 29)
Office of the comptroller general, not previously authorized, $560,000. Mr. Dolynny.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 29)
Court services, not previously authorized, $5,000.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 29)
Total department, not previously authorized, $100,000.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)
That’s all, Mr. Speaker.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)
That’s great to hear; and my friends in the trucking industry will probably be happy to hear that as well.
My next question is all the inconsistencies I was speaking of today in the two jurisdictions, whether it has to do with licence plates, whether it has to do with wide load signs, whether it has to do with truck qualifications, whether a pick-up is 4,500 kgs and the class of driver’s licence you require for that. What is the department doing to try to get the jurisdiction, considering it’s mainly with Alberta, but because we are so adjacent and that’s where the majority of our stuff comes...
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)
Under current regulations they could get a class 3 driver’s licence driving a one-ton pickup pulling a trailer, and then turn around and jump into a gravel truck fully loaded with gravel out on our commercial highways, and if they got the air brake endorsement, they could jump in that gravel truck, but only getting it with a pickup truck.
It just seems that we have too many inconsistencies and our regulations are not conducive to business in the Northwest Territories. We need to look at these regulations. It just seems like the Department of Transportation seems to be slowing down the working...
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)
As a Member of the EDI committee, I’d be interested in that, and I will follow that up with my colleagues and see if we can get a briefing on that. Obviously, my concerns are definitely the fact that there is that inconsistency in the class 3 driver’s licence because there are businesses out there that are dependent upon unskilled labourers that only have a class 5 driver’s licence. Now they’re having to get a class 3 driver’s licence, which is more expensive and not conducive to doing business in the Northwest Territories.
Will the department look at this regulation of pick-ups requiring class...