Thank you, Mr. Chair. A few quick comments here. I want to start off by adding my voice to the congratulations to the Minister and all his staff for the Canada’s Top 100 Employers Award. That’s really great.

So, briefly, I have similar concerns to what the Minister has heard on whistleblower, and I’m looking forward to that legislation being brought forward. Succession planning, I’m very interested in that. I’m finding myself sort of in that category here. What’s been done to date we’ve been talking about since the 16

th Assembly. How do we change the

statistics would be good to know.

We’ve talked a lot about decentralization, devolution and regional recruitment in terms of the HR challenges. I guess I’d like to refer the Minister to my colleague Mr. Moses’ statement today. I was very impressed with that. That’s the fundamental thing we’re dealing with here. It’s no surprise to the Minister the information we’ve received, that even local, long-term community residents are moving to Yellowknife for the additional services and extraordinary benefits they can get here. The challenge is clear and it will take a very comprehensive approach. I would be interested in

hearing, you know, that the Minister recognizes that and how he’s working with his colleagues to address that and refer to that. Put it on the wall in front of your desk, that checklist that Mr. Moses has supplied.

Greening the workplace, something that comes up regularly when I speak on HR. Some great promises have been made but, again, I just still see the Legislative Assembly and ENR as the ones that are committed to this sort of thing. Looking for some leadership and real change there. Evidence can be seen in the failure to use double sided in departments except for, like I say, those two in the documents I see unless they’re coming to the Ledge black and white copies. Heating with renewable energy, such as the Ledge and so on. Composting. These sorts of things that can engage our younger people who recognize the importance of the environment.

Also, on the safety front, I think the Minister has done a good job of stating the situation where we’ve been recently, where we are now. There’s one clear barrier I haven’t heard expressly stated, explicitly stated. I will be asking questions about that when we get into the details. I’m going to leave it at that just to move on to the details.