Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My questions are to the Minister responsible for Human Resources with respect to the Human Resources amalgamation. Just as I was stating in my Member's statement today, Mr. Speaker, my first question to the Minister is, the affirmative action policy since it was first mandated in 1989, there was a policy in there to put together an affirmative action advisory committee, which was an objective, independent committee that had a gender balance and a racial balance to oversee the operations of the affirmative action policy. I think if that committee was implemented when it was supposed to be implemented, Mr. Speaker, we wouldn't be here today talking about human resource equity or employment equity in the government. I think the percentage of indigenous aboriginal employees in the government hasn't changed over the past 10 years. It's been pretty constant and it's actually on the decline. The percentage of indigenous in management has also declined slightly over the past five years anyway.
I just want to ask the Minister, is there any appetite for the Human Resources department to set up an employment equity advisory committee that oversees the operations of the Human Resources department to ensure that the policies in that department are being followed up and that
the representative workforce that this government is committed to establish is being worked on? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.