Thank you, Madam Chair. I could bring this up I suppose under Human Resource Strategy and Policy, but really I’m talking about direction here when I’m talking about the safety practices of the government and the barrier that I referred to in my general comments. I think the department is doing what it can, largely in response to the safety issues and the fines, but really what’s happening is this department provides policy to the other departments and then it’s a matter of trusting them to implement it. That’s not happening. That’s been pointed out by this Minister. He has no control over those departments.

I see here this activity is to provide advice to the Minister as well as the deputy ministers across the GNWT. I think we need some interaction maybe with the Premier and the Minister here to come up with the authority that this Minister clearly needs to have in the area of safety practices for the well-being of our employees across all departments. The Minister knows that. He’s essentially said it. His hands are tied. He’s doing what he can. He happens to be a Minister of a couple of departments, one of which is problematic and we hear that he is working on that and moving on it, but he doesn’t have control over others.

Will the Minister start addressing the issue here and work with the Premier and Cabinet, I suppose, whoever the decision-makers are at this level, to address this and get this Minister the authority to do his job for all of us to the benefit of our employees?