Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment and relate to my Member’s statement where I was talking about the reservists. Every other jurisdiction in this country with exception of the Northwest Territories has clauses within their Employment Standards Act which support reservists and their employers. I understand in the 15
th
Assembly there was some
work done on the Employment Standards Act and at that time it was considered to put those clauses in our act. Unfortunately at the time there were no reservists so it was unnecessary.
Times have changed and we now have reservists in the Northwest Territories. I’m wondering what work, if any, has been done by Education, Culture and Employment on the Employment Standards Act to go back and pull out the work they’ve already done and reinsert it into our Employment Standards Act so that reservists and their employers have some protection in the Northwest Territories.