Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Bouchard.
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Yesterday I was talking in the context of employee bonuses as well as salaries being publicized. It is one of the particular issues that are being raised in the context of being fair and transparent.
Why do we pay performance bonuses to employees? When you do the math on $1.2 million divided by just over 200 employees receiving those bonuses, we are talking about $6,000 on average. That is an average, of course. It is not like that; some get higher and some get lower. With the after-tax impact of those bonuses, it is pretty small. Why isn’t the GNWT moving forward through the remainder of this latest Collective Agreement process to eliminate bonuses? If they are necessary, then why don’t we just roll them into their actual contract? Thank you.