Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, when the Department of Personnel was eliminated, one of the major concerns was the affirmative action policy and who would be monitoring that within individual departments. The complaint that I have heard many times, and so have some of my other Nunavut colleagues at the correctional centre in Iqaluit, is that the number of Inuit employees has dropped considerably. You have unilingual elders who now have been incarcerated and the services are not available to them to the degree that should be there. I am wondering two things, Mr. Chairman, if you would allow me. One is, who is monitoring your affirmative action policy there and what steps are you taking other than that what we talked about earlier in opening comments to actually staff more Inuit at the correctional centre?
Edward Picco on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 18th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 17th, 1998
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
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