Thanks to the Minister. Four weeks seems like an inordinately long time to go from when you know that you need a body to when it is
posted. I appreciate that that’s bureaucracy and my concern is bureaucracy moves awfully slowly.
It’s fairly common knowledge, I think, and I don’t think it’s something that the government really wants to admit, but I think it’s out there that there are jobs that are not posted because they’re being held back for a particular person and I’d like to ask the Minister what he knows about this practice. Certainly I feel, and I think many of the residents of the NWT feel, that people, constituents, residents should have the opportunity to apply on any vacancy, and if jobs are held back then, obviously, that’s not available for them to know about the job.
So, to the Minister, how many jobs are held back? Does he have that number and could he comment on the practice? Thank you.