Thank you, Mr. Rattray. Mr. Lafferty.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question was, why do they have two offices when they could just have one? Thank you.
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, I do not know what the Member is referring to. We do not have two offices. We have a single office that we refer to as the North Slave regional office. That is located in Yellowknife. It deals with our clients both in the Yellowknife area and also in North Slave communities.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So the headquarters office is not in Yellowknife?
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, we have separate headquarter functions that are also located in Yellowknife.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you. Why would you have two offices? Why the extra expenditure of having two offices when you are all doing the same work? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, I am not quite following the Member here. We have a significant number of staff doing certain types of work. They are located in a headquarter set of offices. We have other staff doing other types of work, predominantly the program delivery as opposed to technical support or policy development, that are located in the regional office. It is much more of a field operations type group than the headquarters. They have quite different functions. The fact that they are both in the same community, I am not sure that is particularly relevant.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you. What I was getting at is why we have to pay the extra cost of having two offices when you can have one office and have all of the functions happening out of there. Thank you.
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, if the Member is referring strictly to the office space, we could combine both in the same office structure. It would not be any cheaper because you still need a certain amount of space to accommodate a certain number of people. Whether it is in two buildings or one building, it does not typically make a difference.
I am not sure if that was what the Member was getting at, but if it is not, he could perhaps clarify his question.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you. Yes, I was getting at if you had two different offices, you would double some of your support staff for secretaries, receptionists, all doing different work, whereas you could share some of that workload. Thank you.
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, I suppose some of that might be possible, but the two operations do not have a great deal in the way of secretarial or support staff. Where there is some potential for sharing, I believe we have already taken advantage of it.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Two quick questions. Could the Minister just clarify the drop from 65 to 61 indeterminate full-time in the Fort Smith region? Could he also indicate, from a departmental point of view, what they are planning for in terms of numbers for student hires this summer? Thank you.
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Rattray
Mr. Chairman, we had four positions in the Fort Smith region under this topic. They include a manager of initiatives and support, that is in Fort Smith; a regional computer operator, previously located in Fort Smith; a project officer that was located in Fort Simpson; and a heavy equipment mechanic in Lutselk'e. Those were the four positions that were eliminated from the Fort Smith region.
With respect to the summer students, we have currently identified about 14 positions for summer students. I would expect that as we get a little closer to summer, we will be able to identify some additional positions as well. It is not always easy to identify the positions until we have a clear idea as to what staff will be taking holidays, because in some cases the positions relate to vacancies in existing staff positions. Right now, we have 14 on our list.
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