I just want to make one comment, Madam Chair, and just talking about moving positions out. Like, we're talking about a change to affirmative action. We're talking about, you know, trying to increase the number of Indigenous people and Northerners in the public workforce. And, you know, looking at some of the numbers, you know, one way that -- the one way that I think that we have to do it, or we really have to look at, is decentralization of some of the -- you know, some of the services that we provide. And I think MACA is probably one where we could do that. So, you know, if we're going to -- we got to look at what we're doing. We just can't say no. We've got to take into account other initiatives we're trying to do which is affirmative action. And, you know, in some of the communities we look at, you know, 40 to 55 percent Indigenous hires in the public sector. In Yellowknife, I think it's about 15 percent. But if we -- and in the smaller communities we have, you know, 90 percent, 95 percent Indigenous people, but we still don't have the -- meet the targets there. So this is one way. And I think we really have to look, you know, at not just MACA, not just at the people we have here, but how we can maybe, you know, move some of the staff into the regions or into the small communities. Thank you. Just a comment.
Rocky Simpson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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