Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't know that we could impose it as a requirement. I don't think I have the right to make that kind of regulation, but I have talked to the chairs of the boards and they tell me that they do want to hire northern residents. It only makes sense. They don't want to have to turn over any more than any other employer does. The continuity of northern residents is much higher, or tends to be much higher, than people who come in from the South for jobs, so the boards are quite anxious to hire northern residents, but they are also in a position of hiring teachers with specialties. So you have to recognize that not every teacher is suited for every teaching job. What you have to find is the right match between the job and the position that's vacant. It would be difficult in any given year to see both of the Yellowknife boards here find that suitable match for all of the applicants out of the program that applied to both those boards.
Charles Dent 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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