I'm not really sure what else to say. When those matters come to my desk, we take them back, we follow it carefully, and I don't just accept the responses that come back from the department. We make enquiries, and those responses are that, when they are being told that something is being followed, I do believe that people are not lying to me from the public service and that they are, in fact, saying the truth when they say that they followed a policy. That doesn't mean that we don't have things to fix. Madam Speaker, again, there are a lot of things being done right now. Staffing appeals, as I said earlier, are themselves done independently. The framework process that's being developed is department by department, and there are going to be targets for those in positions of authority and power within and throughout the department, so they are meeting those targets along the way.
Caroline Cochrane on Question 470-19(2): Government of the Northwest Territories Pay Gap for Indigenous Employees
In the Legislative Assembly on November 4th, 2020. See this statement in context.
Question 470-19(2): Government of the Northwest Territories Pay Gap for Indigenous Employees
Oral Questions
November 4th, 2020
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