Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm aware that we do in fact, within HR, have an individual. In a number of departments we have individuals who are disabled. But I'm not going to stand here and highlight who, where and what position. We have individuals working with disabilities. The issue at hand is, as the Member stated, there are numbers and then there's statistics. He's used the fact that 13 percent of people are identified as disabled within the Northwest Territories. The question should more appropriately be, I guess, I look at it is how many of those are in the area of looking for work, how many are seniors, how many are younger individuals in the North? And then how many of them, the result, how many are applying for positions with the Government of the Northwest Territories?
As stated, we recognize, and the trend has been a long time, that we have not pulled the numbers up in regards to disabled individuals working for the Government of the Northwest Territories. I stated that we are reworking our policies around our hiring practices to bring it more into line around affirmative action and our hiring policies for the Government of the Northwest Territories, and I hope to have that paper to my Cabinet colleagues before the end of the summer, and then to the Members of this House for review before we get to the fall sitting. Thank you.