Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I mentioned in my statement, we, as a government, need to do a better job filling the positions we have available at the moment. I would like to ask the Minister of Human Resources for an update. It’s been brought to my attention since October 31st, we have a number of positions to be filled in my riding. I would like an update on these positions as of today. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Blake. The honourable Minister of Human Resources, Mr. Beaulieu.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have determined where all the vacancies are by all departments, but at this time I don’t have the community-by-community breakdown of the status. I know that we have moved to fill quite a few of the positions, both positions where we are trying to staff and positions filled by casuals, but at this time I don’t have specifics as to what has occurred in each community. Thank you.
I know it can be a challenge in the small communities to deal with housing.
Has the Minister and the department been working with the communities to ensure we fill those positions in my riding? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Yes, the department is working through the departments. We are doing the Workforce Planning Strategy. We are looking at the Regional Recruitment Strategy that is targeted directly at positions outside of Yellowknife.
We’re also looking at a public service strategy that identifies any barriers faced by priority groups that may want to be coming into the GNWT. We’re trying to develop a methodology to recruit what we refer to in the business as “hard to recruit” positions. Those are some of the things that we’re doing. In addition, I have more detail on the Student and Youth Strategy that also came up in the House today through the department. Thank you.
I am beginning the planning stages for a community tour with Ministers up in my riding. I would like to ask the Minister if he would be available in April to attend. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I have recently attended the Beaufort-Delta but we didn’t finish our tour. I am prepared to finish our tour that we started. There was an unfortunate death in one of the larger communities over there, so we were unable to finish the tour. I would be willing to finish the tour. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. The honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Moses.
