Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to ask a question here with regard to the, I guess it’s the org chart for lack of a better way of putting it for the department, and I’m presuming corporate management is where this new assistant deputy minister positon is going. I see later on there’s an increase in one PY. Could I get, from the Minister, a bit of an outline of how many positions we have in upper management in the department? I thought we had quite a few assistants and a number of high-level management-type positions already. I’m wondering why we need another assistant manager. How many have we got and what are their functions?
Debates of March 3rd, 2015
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Jackson Lafferty Monfwi
Mahsi, Mr. Chair. We have a deputy minister. Today we have a deputy minister, we have an associate deputy minister, we have an assistant deputy minister, two
of them. Now we have added Olin Lovely. We’re going to have Dana Heide soon to retire. Basically, Olin is taking over Dana Heide’s position. At the end of the day, it’s still the same numbers. It’s just a change of titles.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Mr. Chair, I got a little confused there. So we have deputy minister, we have an associate – I believe that’s Mr. Heide – and we have two assistant DMs. Mr. Heide is retiring soon, so we have three now, or we have four now, or we’re going back to three? I got lost there. Thanks.
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Jackson Lafferty Monfwi
We have three ADMs today. We have an associate deputy, so three deputies and an associate, but the associate term will be up in June. So instead of three, four, five, we’ll be back to four again, three associate deputy ministers and a deputy minister. Mahsi.
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Bob Bromley Weledeh
Thanks, Mr. Chair. Just a little bit of follow-up and then one more area. First of all, I want to correct the Minister. I didn’t say it was a failure across all regions; I said it was a failure in my region specifically in Yellowknife. If the Minister had been with us on our tour of Aurora College Yellowknife Campus, I probably wouldn’t have seen him because we had to squeeze single file through the areas, and if anybody stood up from a desk, that stopped our procession and you would have been out of sight. This has been a known situation for a long time now. Talk about sardines in a tin can. It was pretty amazing. We well know the issues at Mildred Hall, at Sissons and so on. So I just want to correct that.
I think the Minister has done a stellar job in the Beaufort-Delta for example – I didn’t say anything about that – and in the Sahtu and so on in terms of infrastructure, but for three years of a paltry $2 million or $3 million of education infrastructure across the whole Northwest Territories and letting issues drop off the plans that have been referred to, I’d say, yes, there’s a basis for my conclusion.
I want to express appreciation for the Minister being open to looking into the possibility of a guaranteed basic income, a form of that. I’m interested in learning more about how that relates to the labour force issue and how they offset income or supplement income somehow. But I think there’s more than one way to skin a cat, so I would be very open to learning more about that.
My last issue is the education system, generally with the large 10-year review or comprehensive review of the entire education system that’s being planned, and my reference earlier to the Finnish education system which I gave a Member’s
statement on and had some questions for the Minister. He was interested and I know he’s explored that system and is aware of their success and their high stature because of that success around the world. I’m wondering, as we do this comprehensive education review, where is the Minister at in terms of looking at how we can adopt and adapt some of the Finnish approach, or is there a perspective already on where we are at with that?
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Jackson Lafferty Monfwi
Mahsi, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the Member for addressing this particular area where it’s been addressed in the House as well. I did show interest a while ago, how the Finnish overhauled their education structure. This is an area that my department has been exploring and continues to do so because we have to learn from the best practices from other jurisdictions as well. If this is an area that will benefit the Northwest Territories, by all means, we will tackle that issue. It is at preliminary stages. We’re still compiling that information. It’s not only in that country, other countries are very successful that we are collecting information from as well. Mahsi.
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Bob Bromley Weledeh
I thank the Minister for that. I will leave it at that, I just wanted to raise that possibility. It sounds like a comprehensive review will take a bit of time. I am anxious to plant seeds, if possible, at the early stages of this. I appreciate the Minister’s response. That’s all I had on this page. Mahsi.
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The Chair Daryl Dolynny
I will rise and report progress. I’d like to thank our witnesses here today. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you would please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber. Thank you.
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Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 188-17(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 2015-2016, and would like to report progress. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.
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The Speaker Jackie Jacobson
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Do I have a seconder? Mr. Blake.
---Carried
Item 22, third reading of bills. Mr. Clerk, orders of the day.
Orders of the Day
Orders of the Day
Tim Mercer Clerk Of The House
Orders of the day for Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at 1:30 p.m.:
1. Prayer
2. Ministers’
Statements
3. Members’
Statements
4. Returns to Oral Questions
5. Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
6. Acknowledgements
7. Oral
Questions
8. Written
Questions
9. Returns to Written Questions
10. Replies to Opening Address
11. Petitions
12. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
13. Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
14. Tabling of Documents
15. Notices of Motion
16. Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
17. Motions
18. First Reading of Bills
- Bill 48, An Act to Amend the Mental Health Act
19. Second Reading of Bills
20. Consideration in Committee of the Whole of
Bills and Other Matters
- Bill 12, Northern Employee Benefits Services Pension Plan Act
- Bill 36, Health and Social Services Professions Act
- Bill 46, Deline Final Self-Government Agreement Act
- Committee Report 10-17(5), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2013-2014 Annual Report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories
- Tabled Document 188-17(5), NWT Main Estimates 2015-2016
- Tabled Document 205-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 5, 2014-2015
- Tabled Document 206-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2014-2015
- Tabled Document 207-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2015-2016
21. Report of Committee of the Whole
22. Third Reading of Bills
23. Orders of the Day
Orders of the Day
Orders of the Day
The Speaker Jackie Jacobson
Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Wednesday, March 4th , at 1:30 p.m.
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The House adjourned at 5:59 p.m.