Thank you. Can the Minister please tell me who had the authority on the part of the Executive to agree to these terms, or in fact negotiate them in the first place?
Debates of March 8th, 2002
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Mr. Chairman, the employment contract for the chief of staff was entered into pursuant to the general employment provision of the Public Service Act. In the case of the principal secretary, it would be the same arrangement. Thank you.
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Brendan Bell Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is my understanding that in fact Cabinet did approve these contracts, but not in detail, and the detail of the terms of the contracts was in fact negotiated by the Premier. Is that correct?
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the general contract, the boilerplate contract, would have been approved by Cabinet. The negotiations of the contract would be done by the secretary to Cabinet and approved by the Premier in this case.
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Brendan Bell Yellowknife South
Thank you. Can the Minister tell me if these contracts provided for benefits over and above the payment of salary, and if so, what were the benefits provided for?
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Mr. Chairman, the benefits, in addition to salary, would have been as provided for through the excluded employees or managers handbook. They would be normal for these kinds of contracts.
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Brendan Bell Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am wondering if the government obtained any legal advice with respect to the terms or conditions in either of these contracts before they were signed by the Premier.
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Mr. Chairman, all of the boilerplate contracts would have been passed by Justice.
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Brendan Bell Yellowknife South
But Justice would not have given specific legal advice or a legal opinion as to whether or not these two specific contracts complied?
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Joe Handley Weledeh
No, Mr. Chairman. That would not have happened with the original employment contracts.
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Brendan Bell Yellowknife South
Thank you. You have indicated these were boilerplate type contracts. I am assuming that means they are standard deputy minister contracts, because we do not have other chiefs of staff or principal secretaries, so I am assuming he is speaking of deputy minister level contracts.
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Brendan Bell Yellowknife South
So we have a standard at pleasure contract, typical to a chief of staff position that we have never had in this government before, is that correct?