Robert Hawkins

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Many jurisdictions in Canada publish the salaries, or at least the salary ranges of individual civil servants. This has obvious benefits for accountability and transparency.

In New Brunswick, salary ranges for all employees are listed by department in the government’s annual public accounts. Nova Scotia has just begun requiring government agencies to publicly disclose the compensation, direct and indirect, of anyone who receives more than $100,000 in that fiscal year. Ontario publishes the salaries for public employees earning more than $100,000 a year by name on a...

YK1 has, for a number of years, been requesting the completion of the renovation and upgrade of that older building. I’m glad it was put on record. That the 1964/5 wing – I couldn’t remember what year it was – but it was part of that old design. How much has been the requested submission through the YK1 board to finish and complete the renovation project that had started? I thought it was in the range of $1.5 million. Maybe someone can clarify the request that’s been outstanding probably for the best part of eight years. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to make sure we’re all on the same page, what does the Department of Education view as deficiencies at the Mildred Hall School that’s been left over since the 2003-2004 half renovation?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In this particular case, I’d like to thank Member Bisaro for asking the questions I was going to pursue, but I’m not going to necessarily let them slide without getting some clear emphasis on that.

The Minister did make a commitment. Now I’m trying to understand what the commitment was for both Mildred Hall and Sissons. This Minister has a horrible history of saying we do discussions and we have to have meetings, but there always seems to be a lack of detail about commitment on that. So maybe the Minister could elaborate on what Members can expect coming into the next...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I once again seek unanimous consent to return to item 7, oral questions, on the orders of the day.

---Unanimous consent denied

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Human Resources.

Please provide:

a list of senior management positions for fiscal year 2011-2012 for all GNWT departments, boards, agencies, commissions and corporations that identifies the:

i)

department;

ii)

manager-type position title;

iii)

senior management pay band number or deputy head level attached to the position; and

iv)

annual dollar minimums and maximums for the band level; and

b) a table showing the numbers in fiscal year 2011-2012 of all managers and management-type positions in the GNWT for which annual salaries were:

i)

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act in 1996 from Ontario does exactly what I’m suggesting. What does the Minister have to hide from when I’ve given numerous examples as to why Ontario does this? They specifically state the institution people work on, their specific names, their specific positions over $100,000. What does the Minister have to hide from, from proceeding with this type of information on public disclosure on our website? Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate the Minister mentioning the last part, especially about the privacy issue. In Alberta, they recently passed through an FMB directive, which is similar to our process of the Treasury Board, that actually makes this happen that I’m talking about. Ontario, which I’ll table later today, actually publishes people over $100,000 by position, name, where the position is located, as well as their specific salary.

So what is actually stopping this particular Minister from publishing this type of information that’s being published across Canada? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, wish to recognize former Member Krutko. Committee meetings are certainly not the same as they used to be. If anything, they go faster. I will say that we do miss his presence here.

Would the department provide me with the latest information submitted to the Department of Education provided by Yellowknife Education School Board No. 1, including its budget as well as the scope? I would rather not an edited package, if I could request it.