Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the deputy minister indicated earlier, 25 percent of the BCC staff is under the affirmative action policy. We do have an Inuit employment plan that is required by the Nunavut Act, which would see the department participate in a government-wide effort to get more representative levels of aboriginal people in the workforce and in the Nunavut side, I believe the plan is 50 percent by 1999 and 85 percent down the road. The Nunavut Department of Justice which will be, in many ways, a portion of our current Department of Justice does have Inuit employment plans in the books. As the Minister of Finance and the Premier have indicated many times, the Ministers and the deputy ministers are now responsible for the aboriginal employee's component or the affirmative action component of their hiring process.
Goo Arlooktoo 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 18th, 1998
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Goo Arlooktoo Baffin South
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