Thank you, Madam Chair. Just a few brief comments here. First of all, I’m very happy to see this department has been very fiscally responsible and I know that they’re making decisions when they do that and I appreciate that. I acknowledge that there’s a lot of work coming up with respect to devolution and challenges to work within budgets. I think our budgets are going to be pretty slight for when that comes up. That’s going to take some planning to be effective and so on.
A new four-year plan underway, under development, I’m wondering if there’s been a report on the success or failures and where we could do better, based on the first three years. Is there such a report? Maybe I missed it and I’d like to see it be critical, a critical look.
I just want to mention, too, the 20-20 Brilliant Plan, whatever it was, had an element of greening the workplace. That’s important. It’s important for retention, employee retention these days because most young people are very environmentally aware citizens. That’s an important aspect of the job place. Unfortunately I only saw the Green Teams ever develop in one department. I will be asking the Minister questions on that as we get into detail and looking forward to how we can do better on that front.
I really appreciate the Minister’s commitments in the terms of the interim whistleblower process and I look forward to working with the Minister to establish legislation to that effect. I also am keenly interested in effective and partnership work with MACA that the department is committed to in an ongoing way on capacity building of our public
service and particularly in communities. I just wanted to point out that as an interest and I think a fundamental aspect of being a successful public service in the Northwest Territories and I’ll leave it at that. Mahsi.