While you're looking for the answer, the point I'm trying to make is that I'd like to get some assurance from the Minister that there will be serious consideration given to affirmative action candidates and the shortage of aboriginal managers that we have within this government and in other areas. We should seriously consider that we also have the opportunity that is presently being offered to the East for division; and, being able to meet the goal of 50 per cent Inuit within the government bureaucracy by 1999. That we also have the same opportunity in the West to meet the goals that the previous government has tried to accomplish with dismal results. We should somehow keep considering this as a priority and that we do make an attempt to have affirmative action candidates. When it comes to aboriginal people in the West, they should have the opportunity to become managers within this government; not just be service people but also look at the management end. When it comes to a deputy minister and the senior level of the bureaucracy, that we do have a percentage of aboriginal people within those levels of government.
David Krutko on Bill 11: Appropriation Act, 1996-97
In the Legislative Assembly on May 7th, 1996. See this statement in context.
Bill 11: Appropriation Act, 1996-97
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
May 6th, 1996
Page 253
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