Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to just follow up from the last answer that I received from the Premier on my previous set of questions. I appreciate the Premier’s commitment to vet things through committee before they come out into the public, so to speak. I appreciate that the Premier doesn’t want to get ahead of our processes or protocols.
I’d like to ask the Premier, there was a messenger service message which came with his name on the bottom of it on this Monday, March 11th, which stated, to prepare for the integration of transferring programs, our organizational structure will undergo some changes. It then laid out the departments that we are likely to see some changes in.
Can the Premier explain to me why this messenger service comes out and yet we have to wait for committee to provide input?
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. The honourable Premier, Mr. McLeod.
Maybe the Member could clarify. First there’s not enough information, now she’s saying there’s too much information going out. We want to make sure that we do this properly and we will commit… We had talked to the Members about those departments and we’re waiting for feedback.
If the Premier wants to think that I am conflicted that’s fine, he can think that. I don’t understand how we can have the information coming to a messenger service which goes to all GNWT employees and not consider that to be in the public realm. If it is already in the public realm. Can the Premier tell me what our new department structure will look like after April 1, 2014?
I’m quite prepared to do that, if committee obviously agrees with that, that they want me to go out and make these announcements to the public before I get feedback from them. In an abundance of caution, I will wait until I hear back from committee.
I guess my last question to the Premier is: Is a messenger service message that goes to every GNWT employee’s e-mail not considered public?
I would consider that as internal to the Government of the Northwest Territories. Every employee swears an oath of office and we consider it on that basis.
