Thank you, Mr. Chair. Safety in the workplace, I already talked a bit about that and our duty to accommodate officers and working with WSCC, occupational health and safety committees in departments that are being put in. HR is helping by providing advice and guidance to each of the individual departments of the types of things that are needed to be done by occupational health and safety committees. We are trying to work with departments to create some flexibility around those, because we sometimes have buildings where there are multiple departments in it, and having them work together for building support and things like that. There are a lot of things being done around that front. There is training that we offer. We partner with WSCC, who provides a lot of training for us to help people recognize some of the challenges of safe workplaces.

Like I said before, we’ve had a bad claims history, but I think, for 2012, we will all be happy to see a significant reduction in our claims history. I don’t know what that means by way of fines. I am still pretty confident there will be a fine. I just hope, given our significant reduction in claims, we will see a smaller fine, but that will come from the WSCC. We will see how that pans out.

With respect to decentralization and devolution, the Department of Human Resources is providing technical and administrative support to departments that are working on decentralization and helping them address their affected employees, by way of an example. The lead on that is the Department of Executive on decentralization. They are out trying to figure out capacity in communities, where houses are, where office space exists, where we can flow some positions sooner rather than later, and what we’re going to have to do long term. HR is providing technical advice with respect to job descriptions, organizational design, job evaluation and how to address affected employees, and there’s a range of affected employees. There are GNWT employees who might be in Yellowknife and their job is decentralized. They become affected and we have to work with the employing department to address them.

We’ve also got a number of federal employees who will be coming over to the GNWT public service, and we have to make sure that that transition is fair and reasonable, and that those employees are protected as well. So we’re providing technical advice and administrative support on that.

You talked about fire department training and fire training for fires on the road. It’s my understanding that is actually the responsibility of ENR and is

done by MACA. I don’t have any information on that, so you might want to ask ENR and MACA on that.

With respect to things that we’re doing to increase representation of Northerners in the workforce, particularly in small communities, I’ve talked about our regional recruitment plan. As I’ve indicated, that is going to be informed and helped along by the Aboriginal Employees Advisory Committee who is going to provide us some advice on how to break down some of the barriers, like Mr. Menicoche was talking about earlier. We will have that in front of committee prior to the next round of business planning so that it can inform the business planning process.

There are a number of things that we’re doing, and we’re looking forward to working with committee on taking some of those initiatives forward and getting advice and some input from committee as we move forward.