Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess in terms of the Member's question, the employees of the Government of the Northwest Territories are really the workers that carry out the direction of this Legislative Assembly and of Cabinet. They are very critical to the success of those actions actually being implemented.
What we were hoping to do with the Staff Retention Policy was to look inward, first at the employees that we already have and to show them that they are valuable members of our team. In the event of a person finding that the employment they have at a certain point in time is no longer there, we were hoping to find them other sources of employment within the government.
In terms of the Affirmative Action Policy, we do not see it necessarily as a conflict when you are looking at employees from within the government. If you had a number of employees that were affected, the Affirmative Action Policy comes first and the affirmative action employees would be considered in advance of other employees if they were looking at a job.
The other thing about the Staff Retention Policy is that it looks at our employees, including our affirmative action employees, and says to them we would like to keep them in the government and provide them with training in order to do that. There has been some talk about employees leaving the Government of the NWT and taking jobs elsewhere. I guess we are hoping that this will keep employees with us, including the affirmative action employees.
Overall, we see the corporate human resources as a framework, and there are a number of policies underneath that framework, and one of them is the Affirmative Action Policy, one is the Staff Retention Policy. There are requirements for training and all sorts of other things that come under that framework as well. We look at ways that those policies can work together.