Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think this line of questioning may be starting to sound like we are beating on a dead dog...
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...but this is a very important issue to my constituents, who are mostly aboriginal people.
Mr. Speaker, the government has increased aboriginal participation in management from eight percent to a meagre 14 percent over the last nine years. However, I suggest to my colleagues that the majority have more to do with the downsizing of the public service rather than any positive action or policy on the part of previous governments.
In fact, Mr. Speaker, in the past five years, the actual number of aboriginal people in management has increased by eight people as of December 1999. My question is for the Premier. Can the Premier inform this Assembly what steps this government will take to increase the numbers of aboriginal people in management positions? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.