Mr. Chairman, as the Minister stated, depending on what we find in each of the community assessments, if our six staff in the division that we have which includes the regional AFMs can handle it, then we will contract out. Some of the training, though, will be quite specialized and, as the Member knows, we do have staff in the regions. They are assistant fire marshals. But on the emergency management side, we are running desktop exercises and so on and some specialized training. We will likely have to bring in some help from outside to deal with stuff on a one-time basis because we don’t have the staff on hand. In addition, the fire marshal’s office and the assistant fire marshals do have their legislated mandated duties that they have to do and that the training requirement, although part of their job, depending on their caseload at the time, we may have to bring in that outside help as required. Thank you.
Mr. Aumond on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 21st, 2011. See this statement in context.
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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