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Can the Minister please advise me where these employees work?
Okay. Thank you. That brings me to another question. If it’s been inactivated and removed, has the funding not also been removed? Does this mean we’re reducing $100,000 for a position that really hasn’t been funded?
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have two questions. This section includes Organizational Development. The information we received indicates there will be a reduction of a competency officer.
I will back up. In the information we received today that lists Employees and Vacant Positions and so on, I see a listing for an organization design officer, and the telephone listing for the department lists two employees in the organizational department, one of which is the manager and one of which is a succession and workforce planning consultant. I’m just wondering if I could get clarification on whether...
Okay. Thank you for the information. That surprises me. I expect you might get one or two more grievances.
Lastly, I’d like to ask the Minister…. It was mentioned yesterday — it has been mentioned again several times today — that there is evidence of a report called the Hackett Report. I’d like to know from the Minister whether or not that is a document that is available to the public.
I applaud the department for reducing the agency fees and the efforts they have put in to try to reduce these expenses in the last few years.
To the comment about Aurora College nurses, I have heard via the grapevine and anecdotal information, I guess, that although the nurses are graduating from Aurora College, they are not necessarily being employed. So there is a bit of a negative to the fact that these kids are graduating.
You mentioned casual nurses, and I need to know if those are casuals employed by GNWT, or if locum nurses or agency nurses — whatever you want to call them — are...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I guess the fact that we have walls and shelves of binders and policies simply points out the difficulty that residents have in getting a fair housing application done.
I guess I have to ask the Minister again: how does a local housing authority make a decision on an application for public housing from a resident if there’s nothing concrete for them to go to except walls and shelves full of documents in Yellowknife?
No offence, but rather than sitting down with you, I’d rather have the book and do it on my own time.
Laughter.
I understand that, Mr. Minister, but I don’t understand…. You’re reducing the budget by $100,000, which presumably you don’t have because the position is already gone. I fail to understand the explanation, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are addressed to the Minister Responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation. I spoke in my Member’s statement about my inability to get hold of copies of policies that relate to the allocation of public housing at the request of various residents. I go to the Minister of the Housing Corporation because I feel that the Housing Corporation is the parent corporation for the local housing authority.
So to the Minister: I would like to ask whether there are established, written policies that govern the allocation of public housing — whether or not those policies...
Thank you, Mr. Chair. That’s all I have.