Thank you, Mr. Chair. On the corporate human resources, on the activity page number of programs underneath or within Human Resources' watch are listed. Among them is the Graduate Employment Program which, I think, my colleague Ms. Lee may have been discussing and talking about, too. It relates to the promise made by this government, although not in this Assembly but the previous Assembly, that jobs would be offered to all graduates of our nursing and teaching program under the Graduate Employment Program. This was met with great acclaim at the time. I think it has had a fairly good uptake and very much an expression of confidence and support for our northern students and graduates that we value them and we want them to go to work here in the northern homeland and we are ready to step up to the plate and guarantee a job offer in the Northwest Territories, Mr. Chair. One area, though, that this has run into some difficulty and it continues, is where the people who do the hiring are not directly within the realm of the GNWT and especially in the area for teachers. This applies to our school boards and authorities. I know that it has caused disappointment and continues to cause disappointment, Mr. Chair, for some of the graduates of our teaching programs at Aurora College who, when the principal teaching employees are boards and authorities who do not have to follow our policies for whatever reasons, are bypassing or not including the northern graduates on their front line for hiring and, in fact, to the frustration and consternation of some of these graduates, they stand back and see southern employees continue to be hired by our northern school boards. They get bypassed in the face of the promise that our government made. That is the review that I get, Mr. Chair, as an MLA. I am wondering if the Minister has any information or rebuttal to that and discuss just where we can go to enable northern graduates to truly be considered by our boards for hiring, Mr. Chair.
Bill Braden on Committee Motion 50-15(5): Implementation Of The Third-party Accountability Framework, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on March 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 50-15(5): Implementation Of The Third-party Accountability Framework, Carried
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