Wendy Bisaro

I’ll try another question. In a document we received today as well, called Status of Potentially Affected Employees, the second item on that list has: Justice relief employees added in Inuvik, plus-4. I’d like to ask the department what those employees are, what their work is. What work do they do? Which employees are those?

I guess I’d like to know where it is in the document we got today, “DHR Vacant Positions April 21, 2008, Funded.” I don’t see a competency officer. Maybe the department could direct me to the particular page where I would find it.

I guess if it hasn’t been released as a public document, I would request of the Minister that he consider releasing it to me and other Members as a confidential document, for our eyes only.

Three or four a day is still an awful lot.

I’d like to ask the Minister about questions raised earlier about Donnie Days and pay for Donnie Days. I have a specific question with regard to affected employees. If an affected employee happens to be terminated — if this budget is passed and an employee happens to be terminated in October, or whatever the date is…. This employee has been having their salary reduced from, let’s say, the first of January to the first of October. If they are terminated as of the end of September, they will presumably be due funds for a portion of the Donnie Days they...

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?

I just wonder if I could get the amount of the TSC chargeback, please.