Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, no, there is not a policy per se. As circumstances have shown over the past couple of years, as Members of this House have noted, various boards with different ties have gotten into difficult circumstances in some of their management, possibly, and some of the trusteeship of the board in some of the ways that they have tried to make changes to the way the boards deliver programs on behalf of their constituents. As you know, our government is committed to empowerment, trying to pass on as much responsibility as we can to the local or regional level. I think it is a difficult balance, I have said in the past, in giving out the authority and trying to intervene if you feel the need is there, as a government, if we think things are not going the way that it should be. So, no, there is no policy, but certainly circumstances over the past six months to a year to a couple of years since we have actively been involved in the empowerment initiative causes me, certainly, to become more aware of the needs to set some certain parameters in place that would cause us, I guess, at certain points to initiate actions possibly more aggressively with some of the boards as deemed necessary. Thank you.
Kelvin Ng on Question 71-13(5): Departmental Intervention Policy
In the Legislative Assembly on January 22nd, 1998. See this statement in context.
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Item 7: Oral Questions
January 21st, 1998
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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot
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