Thank you, Mr. Chair. I also would like to commend committee and the Minister on all the work done on this bill. I think it has come a long ways from when we first saw it, and I think a lot of people were startled about the amount of consultation with the people being affected that had been done and the shortcomings in that process. I’m sure we’ve all learned from that and that we can’t expect any entity to speak for the people other than the people themselves when we go out and do our consultations. I think that’s a lesson learned in this. Had we been more thorough on that front, I don’t think we would have needed to have put near
the process into amending this bill as was engendered here, but I’m happy with the way things are going.
I did have one question. The Minister mentioned 42 NWT employers now active in the plan. Do all of these employers provide 50 percent of the pension plan or less and expect the employees to provide the other 50 percent or more? My impression was in the past we have had employers who provided more than 50 percent. I know certainly the GNWT, which is not a member of this plan, which I suppose could be but it’s not, and they have had periods in history when they provided more than 50 percent, for example. Are any of these 42 NWT employers in the plan now providing more than 50 percent of the contributions for the pension plans?