At this point, recognizing that as a government we’ve been flat-lined for at least 10 years where 31 percent of our 5,000-plus workforce is Aboriginal, we’re trying to get that moving upward. At some point when we come fairly close to 50 percent I think we could expand it into other areas. For example, we know that of our senior management component, 16 percent is Aboriginal. We have an even steeper hill to climb there. We can character the extreme. We have 33 communities in the Northwest Territories. Every community has varying percentages of Aboriginal people. It’s not our objective to have a representative workforce at the community level; we’re going to have it at the territorial level.
Bob McLeod on Question 104-16(6): GNWT Affirmative Action Policy
In the Legislative Assembly on May 18th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Question 104-16(6): GNWT Affirmative Action Policy
Oral Questions
May 17th, 2011
Yellowknife South
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