We do understand that the high costs of living here in the Northwest Territories is very problematic, especially in some of our rural and remote communities. We did do a review of the minimum wage. I understand that the Member is referring to a report that talks about the living wage that was done in 2015. We are committed to reviewing the minimum wage. We also made an investment during this budget to work with industry and businesses to help work on our small community employment support program to help create jobs as well as to help subsidize wages for some of our residents that are looking for work. We are committed to looking at the minimum wage again. As I mentioned, we do have a lot of good social programs here within government to help offset some of those costs that the Member is referring to.
Alfred Moses on Question 709-18(2): Yellowknife Living Wage Campaign
In the Legislative Assembly on March 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.
Question 709-18(2): Yellowknife Living Wage Campaign
Oral Questions
March 6th, 2017
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