Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm just wondering and the Minister has made it abundantly clear how useless the current affirmative action and where we place disabled persons in that four-tiered approach to affirmative action as a priority two, how useless it is to persons with disabilities in trying to gain employment with the government and for him to stand up and say that they don't self identify, I think that's just taking the first escape route that he can see as to why the government hasn't come up with some other policy or some other means to increase the number of disabled persons that are ready, willing, and able to work for the Government of the Northwest Territories. I'd like to ask the Minister how he can defend, and this is a big one, Mr. Speaker, how he can defend the fact that hundreds of direct appointments are made by this government, the last government, to priority one candidates under the affirmative action policy, but only one was ever made in the last number of years -- you can go back five or six years -- only one was ever made to a person with a disability. I'd like the Minister to say how he can defend those types of numbers in this House. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
David Ramsay on Question 13-15(5): Barriers To Government Employment Experienced By Persons With Disabilities
In the Legislative Assembly on May 31st, 2006. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 13-15(5): Barriers To Government Employment Experienced By Persons With Disabilities
Question 13-15(5): Barriers To Government Employment Experienced By Persons With Disabilities
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 30th, 2006
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