Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have made it very clear many times in this Legislative Assembly or in Committee of the Whole that we no longer can afford to have the level of civil service that we have today. We no longer can afford to spend the dollars that we're spending today, in the future, if we're going to balance the budget and move ahead and have good programs and program delivery at our community level. The message I've gotten out -- and I've said it publicly many times, and I've said it to my own chiefs -- is that it's completely up to you. You can make the decisions where the cuts are, or you can make the decisions of how things happen in your community, or they can be made in Yellowknife, but it's up to you. If you take on community empowerment, you will make those decisions. Our government will not keep the same level of civil servants, or layers of levels of civil servants at the regional and headquarters' levels. We no longer can afford it. Thank you.
Don Morin on Question 333-13(3): Communities' Choices In Community Empowerment
In the Legislative Assembly on May 28th, 1996. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 333-13(3): Communities' Choices In Community Empowerment
Question 333-13(3): Communities' Choices In Community Empowerment
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 27th, 1996
Page 701
Don Morin Tu Nedhe
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