Thank you, Madam Chair. One of the tools that we have put in place is the new Duty to Accommodate Policy that became active early in the life of this Assembly. That is a policy that is written by the Department of Human Resources on behalf of the Government of the Northwest Territories. All departments have to apply that policy accordingly and are ultimately responsible for the results of those policies within their departments. It is a new policy and I have already outlined some of the successes we’ve had with it in the last year. We are seeing some positive results.

We are going to put more duty to accommodate officers out in the field so that we can have even more positive responses. We are also responsible on behalf of the government for trying to set up some parameters around occupational health and safety committees with draft terms of references that departments can use as they establish their own occupational health and safety committees within their departments, which is something that they’re responsible for. That template is available and we are starting to see more occupational health and safety committees popping up in the Government of the Northwest Territories, which is a good thing and something we all want to see.

We do offer some training through the Department of Human Resources that GNWT staff can attend. They still have to get approval from their

departments to attend it, but there is health and safety education and training programs offered on a regular basis. We also work closely with the WSCC to make their programming available to GNWT staff as well. We do facilitate some processes, we do have some duty to accommodate officers that are available to departments as they’re trying to deal with some of these individuals that we do have to accommodate and find ways to creatively get them back into the workforce.

I’m not saying that the Department of Human Resources has no responsibility, I have never said that, but a lot of the ultimate decisions are those of the departments, and we put tools and offer advice and guidance so that they can utilize those tools in an appropriate way.

If you go through the list of departments that are out there, we have a large number of departments that have zero claims history. Some stuff is out there, some departments have good success, others not so much.

As I’ve indicated, as the Minister of Justice, we are taking measures and activities within that department to address our challenges within Justice and I think we’re going to see some results there as well.