Yes, thanks, Madam Chair. I agree with my colleague from Yellowknife North on this. In the last Assembly, we worked pretty hard to ensure that our constituency assistants, they're now eligible for, you know, different kind of benefits. And we worked hard to try to promote them as employees here within the -- they're not within the civil service but trying to make sure that we could find some ways to keep our constituency assistants as well. I can tell you that I pay my constituency assistant more than $25 an hour, and I think they deserve a living wage, and this is probably in about the neighbourhood I would expect that a living wage would be for somebody in Yellowknife. I have no problem setting this as a floor as this recommendation is suggesting. So I will vote in favour of it. Thanks, Madam Chair.
Kevin O'Reilly on Committee Motion 281-19(2): Tabled Document 582-19(2): Report on the 2021 Review of Members' Compensation and Benefits - Northwest Territories - Constituency Assistant Salaries, Carried
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Committee Motion 281-19(2): Tabled Document 582-19(2): Report on the 2021 Review of Members' Compensation and Benefits - Northwest Territories - Constituency Assistant Salaries, Carried
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