We have just under 5,000 people employed in the Northwest Territories with the GNWT. We know that it’s a typical figure, 15 percent vacancy at any one time. The Minister only talks about the back end of the employment process. At the front end of the employment process is the same amount of people coming in as going out. So we have a constant number of about 700 or more vacancies in the Government of the Northwest Territories at any one time, but yet we only have 10 percent on the webpage being advertised.
Let’s get to new results and find out where we’re going with this problem. What did the Minister learn and how many new Northerners did we hire at these expensive job fairs when we’re not even advertising them here? He says we don’t advertise them all. Well, who are they for? Who? You know?
Let’s find out how useful these job fairs have been hiring people to bring them north, because I can tell you the stats say we’re losing people, not gaining them.