Robert Hawkins

What would the dollar value be of that particular average? Could the Minister put it on the record?

What positions and how long?

Thank you for that. Over and above this, how many casual positions does the department carry? Thank you.

What is the fully encumbered cost or the average the department is using? Again, I can’t use committee documentation that the Minister keeps referring to here because it was given in camera. It makes it difficult when he keeps saying it was given to us, but we can’t reference it specifically. That is why I’m asking what is the average cost used for the fully encumbered cost per position as he’s highlighting. Thank you.

I request a recorded vote, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Please provide the following information:

the cost of expanding the Social Work Program at Aurora College by one year so that three years of study toward a degree in social work are available in the NWT;

the steps that would be required to expand the Social Work Program at Aurora College by one year; and

the obstacles, if any other than funding, that would have to be overcome in order to expand the Social Work Program at Aurora College by one year.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister said there was an average, if I understood it correctly, vacancy of 9 percent for the Department of Justice. For the folks at home and certainly for the Members, specific to the Department of Justice, what would that add up to?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to use the occasion to flush out the positions that we’re getting both increases and decreases. Earlier Ms. Schofield had mentioned that there were three positions sunsetting and I don’t see any negatives to the department in this area under services to government. I can only conclude as part of the last answer that there were new positions. So, maybe we could get a list of what positions would be sunsetting and leaving the department for whatever reasons as they will explain and what new positions we will be getting, for the record, because it appears that...

Mr. Speaker, they do, and they take them to the housing authority and the housing authority takes the complaints to the landlord and nobody does anything. So I’m asking, why don’t we have a rule on the books, or why don’t we have a Minister’s directive that if the landlords are not responding to the needs of the tenant, which are furthermore supported by the needs of the housing authority that they believe that they are valid, and again under the Residential Tenancies Act, that they will be taken to the rentals office and they will be treated as appropriate? Thank you.

A moment ago on the record, the Minister told me to just do the math, you can figure it out. Now he’s telling me it’s impossible to calculate. Which is it and what can the department provide? Thank you.