Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions this afternoon are for Mr. Dent, the Minister responsible for Human Resources. It concerns the awarding of the employee and family assistance contract earlier this year. Mr. Speaker, given the high quality of service demonstrated by Northstar over the seven years that it had this contract, and given the tremendous increase in the size of the civil service and the growth in the number of requests over these years, and given the intrinsic value of nurturing, protecting and enabling northern grown businesses to stay in business here to keep resident professionals in the NWT, what were the reasons that the government awarded the employee assistance contract to the outside company Shepell-fgi, Mr. Speaker?
Bill Braden on Question 96-15(6): Contract For GNWT Employee Assistance Plan
In the Legislative Assembly on May 16th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Question 96-15(6): Contract For GNWT Employee Assistance Plan
Item 7: Oral Questions
May 15th, 2007
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