Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to just follow up on the last question from my colleague to my right. I fully support employee recognition programs. I think there’s a lot of value in them. But there are many ways of recognizing employees, and I have to agree with Mr. Beaulieu; I don’t think the Premier’s awards are sought after. I don’t think they’re high on many employees’ lists of coveted awards. So I would agree that probably ought to be dropped, and if necessary, if you want to keep the money, put it into other methods of recognizing employees.

There are a couple of things I’d like to ask...

However, that said, I’m glad these policies are being revised. I would like to know when we can expect a revised copy of this policy book, which I can’t get a hold of.

I guess I need to ask if I can see a list of funded positions for the Human Resources Department for ’07-08.

I am pleased to hear from the Minister that I can have access to the policies, but I guess I’m going to ask him through his office if he would provide me with copies of those written policies, because I can’t seem to get them from anywhere else.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to go back to the position of competency officer. I’m not understanding how we are saving $100,000 if the position has been deactivated and removed from the list, which I think were the words of the Minister. If it’s no longer part of the department staffing list, how are we saving $100,000?

Mr. Speaker, I’d like to discuss the availability of housing policies at both the community and the territorial level. Like most MLAs, the interactions I have with constituents very often centre on housing issues. By the time the constituent gets to their MLA, it’s usually difficulties they’ve encountered with their housing, not happy occurrences, they want to discuss. We’ve heard references previously from members of the Auditor General’s office that applications for housing from NWT residents are not always fairly dealt with by local housing authorities. In these situations, when faced with...

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.