Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s a shared interest. The private sector, as well, is struggling, in many cases, to find staff and people and get people to stay to avoid having fly-in/fly-out, which is why we’ve started this working group with the Chamber of Mines, the Chamber of Commerce and the three diamond mines to talk about what can we do together, how do we work together. Things like going south jointly to go to trades fairs and those types of things. We’re working with our own departments, Education for example, to really take advantage of this Express Entry Program that the federal government is going to be rolling out in January where businesses, government, whoever has a need, can reach into work from another country, from another place and say I need an accountant or engineer or whatever professional or technical person you need and I will give them a job here, that there’s going to be a program that’s going to give within six months, apparently you should be able to get these folks from wherever they live to where they’re going to work, which in this case would be the Northwest Territories. We have a shared interest with the mines there, as well, because we all have vacancies and hard-to-fill positions that we’re working hard at. We want to work with them. As well, we’ve sorted out the confidentiality issue, for example, with Education where now we can have a greater connection with the students that we’re paying to go to school down south, not only for ourselves but for the private sector so they can know who is in engineering, who is in finance, who is in the social sciences and we can do a better job of recruiting and making sure our own students and our own children, Northerners, know that not only we’d like them to come back but we’re going to actively recruit them to come back. So we have a very shared common interest to see that we can have that type of sustainability and have that type of population growth where we share our efforts where it makes sense to do that work in terms of the systems and making sure that we can address our needs together. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 20th, 2014. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
October 19th, 2014
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