Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I found the Minister of Human Resources statement interesting today about eRecruiting and the vacancies in the territorial government. The territorial government isn’t the only employer in the Northwest Territories who has issues with recruitment and retention of staff and I believe I can safely say this is an issue in the private sector as well as in the public sector. The Minister indicated that with the new system up and running, that they’ve had a lot of applications come in. There were 587 applications for 112 government positions. These come from a total of 76 different countries. This effort is all well and good, but I’d like to ask the Minister of Human Resources what we’re going to do when people apply to come to work in the Northwest Territories from other countries and we have a bottleneck at Service Canada with a person who works in that office who is over-opinionated and anti-immigration, from what I know. Just about every constituent that I have talked to that has any dealings with Service Canada has found this particular individual to be a problem. I’d like to ask the Minister what he’s going to do with that. It’s great to advertise jobs and get applications from all over the world, but what are you going to do when we don’t control immigration and we have no control over who sits in that seat?
Jane Groenewegen on Question 251-16(4): GNWT Recruitment For Foreign Workers In The NWT
In the Legislative Assembly on February 3rd, 2010. See this statement in context.
Question 251-16(4): GNWT Recruitment For Foreign Workers In The NWT
Oral Questions
February 2nd, 2010
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