I am not that familiar with the procedural aspects of things. If we want to debate it, it does not matter to me, we can debate it anytime. If there is a requirement for further clarification by the Government Leader, I would be prepared to meet with her at her convenience.

On the third motion, hire north, and the feeling amongst the Standing Committee on Finance, is we have to find new and creative ways to ensure that more northerners are placed within the civil service.

Motion to Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried

Motion number three, I move that the committee recommends that the Assembly establish a goal of increasing the number of aboriginal people in the civil service to 50 percent, or more, by 1997.

Further, the committee recommends that the government review options and develop an action plan with the 1993-94 main estimates to accomplish this goal, including job reclassification, to use talents available in the north, a development of career paths and advertising recruitment in the south, on an exception basis only.