Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the Member indicated, there has been a new policy developed, the Staff Retention Policy, and the intention of that policy is to make sure that we support our employees and try to make sure that they have continuing employment in the Government of the Northwest Territories, and see the Northwest Territories not only as a source of continuing employment, but as an employer of choice.
The policy sets out clear guidelines on the intention to make sure that departments are accountable in making sure that employees are retrained and if there is a change in the kind of employment they would do it within that department, that there would be training made available to support that change in employment. In addition to that, and I know that he mentioned that procedures are sometimes quite onerous, but there have been procedures developed involving all of the human resource managers from all of the departments to try to make sure that the criteria for accessing those funds, if in fact the department cannot find employment within their own department, is not onerous on the employee and that there is some assistance in figuring out how to access those funds.