Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement I talked about our employees. Our employees are our most valuable resource. In the budget address, the Minister talked about finding efficiencies and, quite frankly, I think one of the greatest ways to find some efficiencies is to work with our employees. Right now, as I indicated in my Member’s statement, you can go and find bookshelves throughout the government full of reports and analyses that were done by contractors that were managed by our employees. Our employees are smart, intelligent, hardworking, competent people who can do this work. I mean, how often do we see ex-employees of the GNWT getting contracts to do something that they could have done when they were an employee? So to the Minister: we’ve got an opportunity here to work with our employees, to empower them to create some of these efficiencies and get them to do the work. Could the Minister tell me what actions are being done to engage our employees, and move away from heaving so many darn contracts and empower our employees, who are quite competent, to do the work and allow them to do the work? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Glen Abernethy on Question 360-16(5): Utilizing The Expertise Of GNWT Employees
In the Legislative Assembly on February 3rd, 2011. See this statement in context.
Question 360-16(5): Utilizing The Expertise Of GNWT Employees
Oral Questions
February 2nd, 2011
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