Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m really looking forward to seeing the breakdown of those 571 vacant positions, where they are located, whether that would be in the regions or in the headquarters.
The Minister of Finance indicates that they are actively seeking to recruit candidates for those 571 positions; however, on the GNWT website right now there are 126 jobs advertised. Of these, five are short-term, 10 are terms, and so that amounts to 126 versus 570-something.
I’d like to ask, where are the other 400 jobs being advertised? Are they on some other website? Are they being recruited by boards and agencies? How would a person know?
The government says that they have these vacant positions. It leads one to wonder what happens to all the money that we vote to those departments for those positions if there’s nobody in them. It rather begs the questions, and now we see evidence that the government is not even trying to recruit for them, unless it’s somewhere else that we just can’t find. Hey, we’re MLAs. If we can’t find them how can the public find them?