Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Of course there is a theory, remember we had too many in the first place. I am not being facetious about it. The fact of the matter is, it is 6,000 plus employees for 67,000 people. That is disproportionate in my opinion, the amount of civil servants versus population, but in answer to my colleague, I want to assure him that with the delegation that we have done. I mean we have done enormous pushing out of delegation of authority. We have in fact made some moves. One that comes to mind would be the $5,000 local purchase authority that used to be $250 or a thousand dollars. In an effort to streamline and give some authority in delegation to people in the field. It is not something that you can just sort of say, well, we will do an audit and we will move forward to make it more efficient today. It is a general attitude, if you want, and I suppose to some extent, I am responsible for providing leadership and direction and I want to assure my colleague that there is nobody more cognizant of the need to make government more efficient, to make it less burdensome in terms of red tape and bureaucracy than I am and it is a continuing task that I am optimistic we will make it better than it was before, that is not to suggest that it is in an ideal situation. It is certainly our intent to make it easier, particularly of our senior management in the field, more responsible and give them more authority to go with it and I am optimistic with that will come more efficiencies and certainly more satisfaction in terms of staff morale, middle management, senior management confidence, et cetera. So that is sort of the intent, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
John Todd on Committee Motion 8-13(4): Reconsider Elimination Of Funding For Metis Nation Community Resource Director
In the Legislative Assembly on February 4th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 8-13(4): Reconsider Elimination Of Funding For Metis Nation Community Resource Director
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 3rd, 1997
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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