Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, one of the reasons I raise this line of questioning today is in response to some constituents who have raised concerns about fairness and transparency in the hiring process, and Ms. Bisaro mentioned it yesterday too. I mean, I hope that...I mean, people who are, you know, the children of deputy ministers and senior management of the government are entitled to student employment with the GNWT as well; however, if they’re working directly for one of their parents, of course, that’s something that I think needs looking into. However, one of the situations that I heard of in Hay River is that when a certain government department went to the summer employment office to get students, the only names that were sent over

to them to choose from were the P1 students. I’d like to ask the Minister if he believes that the Affirmative Action Policy must apply for summer students who are not going to be necessarily forming a long-term representation...I mean, the affirmative action is to have a representative workforce. Does the Minister feel that only P1 students’ names should be sent out initially to those departments seeking summer students? Thank you.