I guess we can look back at statistics and see what kind of direct appointments might have been done in that sense. It is a concern because we do put a lot of power into the Minister’s
hands in terms of his opinion on who might be able to take another job.
I guess, moving further down in the clause, it does say, “without competition to any position in the public service…” As I stated in my general comments, we have over 5,000 jobs in the GNWT. We also learned over this past summer’s session that some of these positions are left vacant on purpose.
How does the Minister have the authority to appoint an employee who has been identified for layoff with any position within the departments? How does the Minister work with other Ministers to ensure that they can just take that position and move it into any public service position in the public service? Thank you.