Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think we couldn’t agree with the Member more; however, the expertise that we did have around industrial assessment, unfortunately that employee passed on and they are in short supply across the country; all kinds of assessors. So what we have decided to do, with the permission of the House, is we have had some success in taking local people and trying to train them to become assessors, but that is a five or six-year process, so we still need... We still have a legislated requirement to undertake the property assessment function and we will be using contract expertise to do that. We will be using the vacant money that we have for the positions to establish trainee positions so that we can get northern people involved in the profession, hopefully, so that we no longer have to hire contractors to do this. Thank you.
Mr. Aumond on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and other Matters
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and other Matters
February 20th, 2011
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