Mr. Chairman, as I recall, the Hackett Report — and I’d have to look at it in more detail — when comparing to other organizations…. I
think they were comparing it to similar-sized
organizations in the United States, or larger centres that readily have access to fully trained, fully certified human resource professionals and, also, have lighter workloads and variety of job requirements than we have here in the Northwest Territories.
Certainly, that would be an area we would aspire to. I think that if the infrastructure in the Northwest Territories — or the technology — improved so that we could rely a
lot more and be a
lot more
dependent on computer technology and wireless technology, all of those things would go a long way to reducing our human resource requirement.
Also, what we’re finding is that, in the Northwest Territories, we have to spend more time on training and so on. To get to the ultimate, I guess, as the Hackett Report pointed out, we would need a very
stable, highly trained workforce. This is something we’re aspiring to and we’re working toward.