My apologies, Mr. Speaker. Now I understand where my colleague is coming from. Operationally, how we are making the government more efficient, reducing the paper flow, etcetera, I think the simple and short answer is, yes. I think we have made some major strides. For example, I remember the days when I was in government, an LPA, I think that is what is was, was $250. It is now under the Department of Public Works, $5,000, that allows the management team to quickly make decisions to expend where it is required in services. Other changes have been made in the FMBS, as the decision making to reducing the paper. The loan applications are down to one, two pages at the most. There are a whole series of...I could go on all day, but I am sure my colleague would prefer I did not. He has heard it before. There is a whole series of initiatives and changes that we are taking. No, we are not going to be perfect. There is no question of that. There are going to be weaknesses and gaps. There are going to be dissidents. There are going to people who are discontent with what we are doing. But we have to believe at the end of the day, that what we are doing is right. We have to believe at the end of the day, that we are trying to make government more efficient, smaller. Six thousand territorial employees for 67,000 people. Nowhere else in the free world does that exist, Mr. Speaker. We must find a way to reduce the size of the civil service, to ensure that there is adequate money left to deliver to those people that need it the most.
John Todd on Question 498-13(3): Effectiveness And Efficiency In GNWT Programs
In the Legislative Assembly on October 16th, 1996. See this statement in context.
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Question 498-13(3): Effectiveness And Efficiency In GNWT Programs
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 15th, 1996
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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