Yes, I could tell the Member that, as Minister of the department, I had made it very clear from day one to the senior officials that I believe in adhering to affirmative action policies. You will see that in our departmental reorganization and appointments that I have been part of that we have given due consideration to the principles of the Affirmative Action Policy.

Also, at the rank and file level, obviously, Affirmative Action Policy is a guiding principle, and in all of our training programs I don’t think there is any question that we are wanting and we do what we can and we do everything we can to encourage and support our people, NWT residents too, and especially people from small communities to take on those challenges, get trained and also encourage them to go back to the communities they come from. I could tell you that we have nothing as successful, because I have run into lots of people at Stanton Territorial Hospital, for example, who are from elsewhere in the Territories who choose to live and work in Yellowknife rather than going back to some of the communities they come from.

I could tell you, Mr. Chairman, we have information on breakdowns for the authorities. For Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority, we have 220 employees there and about 25 percent are indigenous aboriginal. We have 75 percent who are non-aboriginal. All of the senior management at Beaufort-Delta are female. For Deh Cho, 49 percent, almost 50 percent are indigenous aboriginal out of 85 employees. All of the management are female. For Fort Smith, 49 percent out of 127 employees are indigenous aboriginal. Forty-seven percent are non-aboriginal. Senior management is 100 percent indigenous aboriginal. For the Sahtu, out of 65 employees, 41 percent are indigenous aboriginal and 58 percent are non-aboriginal. For senior management, none of them are indigenous aboriginal or female. For Stanton Territorial Authority, out of 474 employees, 10 percent are indigenous aboriginal, 9.7 percent indigenous non-aboriginal and 80 percent are non-aboriginal, 66 percent of the management are female. For Deh Cho, out of 76 employees, 61.8 percent are indigenous aboriginal and 38 percent are non-aboriginal. For Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority, out of 155 employees, 11.6 percent are indigenous aboriginal, 7.1 percent indigenous non-aboriginal and 81 percent is non-aboriginal. Thank you.