Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My written question is to the Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources.
In June 1974, the Government of Canada signed an agreement with Mineral Resources International Limited. Under this agreement, the Commissioner and the Government of the Northwest Territories had certain obligations to northern residents in the areas of training and employment at the Nanisivik Mine.
The 1974 agreement provides that the Commissioner is to appoint an employee of the Government of the Northwest Territories as a counsellor. This position was to provide information, guidance and assistance to northerners and their families with respect to job training and work and living conditions at Nanisivik Mine. Further, the counsellor would have the responsibility for arranging training and upgrading of education of northern residents, ensuring that the mine would have a workforce comprised of at least 60 per cent northern residents, and ensuring the employment objectives of the agreement were met.
Could the Minister please provide the following information:
1 .Whether any GNWT employees were ever appointed to the position of counsellor, as provided for in the 1974 agreement, with their names and the dates and lengths of their appointment.
2. The current percentage of northern residents working at Nanisivik Mine, along with historical percentages of northern residents in the Nanisivik workforce over the life of the mine.
Copies of any minutes or reports of the Training and Employment Advisory Committee to have been established under the terms of the 1974 agreement.
4. Names of GNWT representatives who have served on the Strathcona Sound Monitoring Committee, along with the dates and lengths of their service.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.