Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in the area of human resources, government has announced the Staff Retention Policy that they put in place. I stated that I have some concerns with how this policy will overlap with an existing policy, which is the Affirmative Action Policy, which has been in place for some time.
What my concern is, because of the different criteria for the Staff Retention Policy, which does not really open up doors for people under affirmative action, it sort of shuts it. Because of the differences between the two policies, where you are protecting people within but not allowing people from outside to get jobs within the government, especially using the Affirmative Action Policy, which was a tool to allow the public service to be reflective of the political makeup of the Northwest Territories.
So I would like to ask, has the department looked at how this new Staff Retention Policy is going to work in-line with the affirmative action, or is there going to be a joint policy so we meet the criteria of both policies? Now we have two policies, before we had the affirmative action, now we have added another policy. So can the Minister state what are they doing to ensure that the Affirmative Action Policy is still going to be adhered to and not overlooked by this new policy?