Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Another concern that has been expressed to me is that not all the factors in the Hay Job Evaluation System are actually used to evaluate the benchmark positions in the north and that, rather, there was a shortened or modified version which was used. Would the Minister be kind enough to elaborate on this please?
Debates of May 20th, 1998
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Supplementary To Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Supplementary To Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Todd.
Further Return To Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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John Todd Keewatin Central
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was trying to get my notes so that I make sure I have the correct answer for my honourable colleague. I wonder if he could repeat the question, so I can understand and answer it fully? Thank you.
Further Return To Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Final supplementary, Mr. Erasmus.
Supplementary To Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister asked
for clarification as he was looking for his notes. In that sense what I had asked was, in the area of job evaluation, there has been a concern expressed that not all the factors were used to evaluate benchmark positions and rather, there was a modified Hay Plan version used in the north. I was asking the Minister to please elaborate on this issue. Was there actually a modified version used to evaluate benchmark positions or was the full process used? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Todd.
Further Return To Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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John Todd Keewatin Central
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was not looking for my notes. I have them and was just trying to get the right one so I could give my honourable colleague the correct answer. I know this is an important issue. I will take the question as notice because I do not have the answer here today, Mr. Speaker.
Further Return To Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
Question 496-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The question is being taken as notice. Oral questions. Mr. Roland.
Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question at this time will be directed to the Minister of Finance on the issue of P3, Public/Private Partnerships. It is a fairly important issue in the community I represent. They are saying that a couple of the larger projects; for example, the Inuvik Hospital, has been designated as a P3 project. I would like to know if the Minister is aware that there were workshops provided down in Yellowknife and, I believe, in Hay River. I would like to know if the Minister would see to it that a workshop would happen in the community of Inuvik? Thank you.
Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The Minister of Finance, Mr. Todd.
Return To Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
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John Todd Keewatin Central
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We would only be too happy to run a workshop, as we have in other communities, with respect to this important creative initiative of this government and the P3. Thank you.
Return To Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Roland.
Supplementary To Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister tell us or give us a time line, hopefully shortly after the session breaks? Is that possible? Early June, mid-June? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
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May 19th, 1998
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Todd.
Further Return To Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnership Workshop
Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
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John Todd Keewatin Central
Yes, Mr. Speaker, we will do it as soon as we can. As I said, it is an important issue and as my honourable colleague knows he has a number of important capital initiatives in his town which are in great need of economic activity. We would be only too happy to work with the private sector and everybody else in Inuvik in giving them an in-depth overview of the P3 and they could participate in this exciting new policy of this government.
Further Return To Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnership Workshop
Question 497-13(5): Public/private Partnerships Workshop
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Mr. Enuaraq.
Question 498-13(5): Teachers' Resignations In The Baffin Region
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Tommy Enuaraq Baffin Central
(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question today is directed to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, the Honourable Charles Dent. My question is, in regard to teachers who have resigned, there are about 20 teachers in the Baffin region who will not be returning to their positions as teachers in the Baffin region. Will these resigned teachers be replaced? There are about 20 teachers who have resigned from their positions. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. (Translation ends)
Question 498-13(5): Teachers' Resignations In The Baffin Region
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent.
Return To Question 498-13(5): Teachers' Resignations In The Baffin Region
Question 498-13(5): Teachers' Resignations In The Baffin Region
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not aware of the numbers of teachers who may have resigned in any of the regions across the territories right now. I would expect that the Baffin Divisional Education Council will have a recruitment plan and teachers will be replaced before the start of the next school year. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Return To Question 498-13(5): Teachers' Resignations In The Baffin Region
Question 498-13(5): Teachers' Resignations In The Baffin Region
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Oral questions. Mr. Barnabas.
Question 499-13(5): Education Boards' Hardship Program
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Levi Barnabas High Arctic
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to follow up with the same question as my colleague. Mr. Speaker, there are some casual employees who are hired by the education boards and they are resigning because of the lack of pay that has been paid out in the increments for accommodation. What I would like to know is, there used to be a hardship program with the education boards. I wonder if that was eliminated? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Question 499-13(5): Education Boards' Hardship Program
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent.
Return To Question 499-13(5): Education Boards' Hardship Program
Question 499-13(5): Education Boards' Hardship Program
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not aware of any program called the hardship program. I will have to look into that, so I will take the question as notice.
Return To Question 499-13(5): Education Boards' Hardship Program
Question 499-13(5): Education Boards' Hardship Program
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The question is taken as notice. Oral questions. Mr. Ootes.
Question 500-13(5): Hay Job Evaluation System
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Financial Management Board a further question regarding the negotiations with the union. The union maintains that the Hay Plan is not gender neutral and does not meet the minimum standards of the Canadian Human Rights Act. It has offered to put the question to an impartial panel of experts which they would choose, along with the government. That panel would consist of three experts: one, the employer nominee; another, the union nominee and an independent chairperson. They have even offered to make the panel's decision binding. The point I am making is, if the government is so sure of its position, why not take the union up on its offer and let the experts decide if this plan is, in fact, a gender neutral setting, settling this once and for all. Could the Minister explain why he will not put this to a panel of experts?