Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, more on the serious side of our transition, we can't turn the clock back to 1997 or 1998 when the decision was made at the time to customize the program to fit our processes as the Government of the Northwest Territories. Hindsight being 20/20, if we could do that again, we would stay with the pure form of the program and we would adopt our processes to fit it which would provide for a much cleaner process. Will that stop absolutely everything from occurring? As those of us who have home computers realize, that's not necessarily going to be the case. On an annual basis, there will have to be upgrades and new licences bought as we put in new systems and new computers in offices across the Territories, so that will be an additional cost there. But for the problem itself in the customization of the original program, I can't go back and try to justify why the decision was made back then and going to a customized version or creating that customization. We, as we found out now, are not in a position to continue with that customization. In fact, that program through the customization wasn't being fully utilized. That is the goal now, is to go to the pure form of 8.9 and use the programs as they were designed. We, as a government, will have to change our processes. For the majority of things, if you look at it, are cleaned up. There are a couple of modules that were causing problems as of recently and causing much grief for employees across the Northwest Territories. Once that is fixed, we should be able to proceed forward with minimal interruptions. But as for a guarantee of one going forward, I don't know if anybody can give that. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Floyd Roland on Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on August 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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