Caitlin Cleveland

As part of the legislative review process, what public bodies will the GNWT engage as they modernize the Public Service Act? How will constructive participation be assured? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, would like to recognize Mr. Tony Whitford, who is sitting next to my mother, Kam Lake resident, Carole Tetlow. I would also like to thank her for teaching me the importance of building up people in communities with our hearts as our compass.

I would like to also recognize Sir John Franklin High School students, young women, and Kam Lake residents, the ridiculously talented Lana Saunders and, also, smart-as-a-whip Adrienne Lam, who are working as Pages today and paving their own path to becoming future leaders.

I also notice a neighbour of mine, Sara Minogue...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, that Bill 1, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Thursday, December 12, 2019, I will move that Bill 1, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, be read for the first time, and, Mr. Speaker, later today, I will seek consent to waive Rule 69(1) to have Bill 1 read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question today is for the Minister of Finance. Mr. Speaker, for many years, we have discussed the modernization of the Public Service Act. With over 5,000 public servants providing essential programs and services to nearly 45,000 Northerners, it is our responsibility to ensure our public service is competent, efficient, skilled, results-oriented, managed in a transparent manner, and supported to maximize their effectiveness.

A modern Public Service Act would allow us to provide clearer staffing processes, build a framework for successful union-employer relations...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On Friday, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, my mother laid a rose for one of the 14 women engineers murdered on December 6, 1989 in an act of gender-based violence.

As a young woman, my mother wanted to become an architect. She was scolded for wanting to take a man's place in school. When she applied, she was told first she would need to prove she could keep up with the men by completing a Pure Math Degree, a prerequisite not required by her male colleagues. She graduated in Montreal with honours and then from UBC with an architecture...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to welcome local Kam Lake business owners, Manuel and Marta Jorge, who are sitting up in the gallery today.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Following the implementation of PeopleSoft in the late 1990s, FMBS contracted with an external contractor to review the implementation and examine the strengths and weaknesses of the implementation. That report was completed in I believe the year 2000 and was circulated fairly broadly at that point in time. The suggestion, I believe earlier, was that there would possibly be a further post-implementation examination. I have actually talked to Human Resources about that. We are looking at how we would develop a terms of reference for that. That probably wouldn’t...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just briefly, it's clear that environment cleanup, environmental liability has been growing understanding on the part of governments and other organizations. So I would say that over the last few years it's been an item of considerable attention when any transfers occur, and certainly at the present time, when such transfers occur, potential environmental liability is monitored very carefully and discussed with the person we're getting the property from. I would say was a little less attention in the past and as a result, we do have some elements on our books that...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member's quite correct; that for the vast majority of individuals accessing funding, debt collection isn't a problem. Most people do pay on time.

When the individual departments do counsel individuals who have debts, they tend to work out something that will work for the individual. We do the same thing once it comes to government accounting. All of the debts from across the government get consolidated there, except for those that are with boards and agencies. So all of the government's debts are with the government accounting, and the staff in government...