Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions again today are for the Honourable Floyd Roland, Minister responsible for the public service in the Northwest Territories. I guess I'll start off by just saying numbers do not lie. If you looked around the country and his Human Resources department went out and did a comparison of rates of persons with disabilities that are employed in various public services across this country, the Northwest Territories would rank absolutely at the bottom of that list, Mr. Speaker, and I think that is an absolute shame. I'd like to ask the Minister exactly, and he is the Minister for Human Resources, also the Minister for FMBS, and I'd like to ask him, given the size of our public service relative to our population, it's huge. It's 4,200 employees, 42,000 residents, 13 percent of our population have a disability. Why is it that the Minister who's responsible for FMBS and Human Resources does not have one single person with a disability working in his two departments? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
David Ramsay on Question 22-15(5): Under-representation Of Disabled Persons In Government Workforce
In the Legislative Assembly on June 1st, 2006. See this statement in context.
Question 22-15(5): Under-representation Of Disabled Persons In Government Workforce
Item 7: Oral Questions
May 31st, 2006
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