Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are providing two training positions this year, we are making arrangements with communities whereby they can assist us in hiring people to work in their communities to be part of the decision-making process so they can tell us who they want to work in those communities. We are asking them to consider as many northern people as possible. The word to the department is, and as I said in the speech, that we hire north first, and it would only be when we cannot fill those positions from the north that we would hire in the south. I think the way to do this thing is to start inducting people into the bottom of the department, train them and, as Mr. Zoe says, career path them so they can get up into management and look at a career with the government in this particular department. This is what we are telling our staff we are doing. This is what we are telling the communities we are doing. This is what we intend to do, Mr. Chairman, to hire more people from the Northwest Territories.
John Pollard on Committee Motion 73-12(3): To Adopt Recommendation 4
In the Legislative Assembly on February 22nd, 1993. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 73-12(3): To Adopt Recommendation 4
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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John Pollard Hay River
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