Thank you. I'm going to go back to the Member from Yellowknife Centre.
Debates of June 4th, 2024
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Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
So just to reaffirm, there's no targets or objectives formalized yet on this particular position? And if so, what's the salary range on this? Thank you.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the salary ranges of assistant deputy ministers are standard across the department. And all roles within the department -- or within all departments and across the government also do performance -- not performance appraisals -- performance appraisals -- job evaluations, and then as people go through their position year after year, they do performance appraisals.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
I'm just trying to get the sense of why they're going to exist other than believing they'll do a good job. I mean, I think this money could have been better placed in a regional centre, whether it's great places like Fort Providence who really revive languages. You know, we have Tsiigehtchic, you know, or McPherson who are struggling to keep Gwich'in alive; Gwich'in's key. So I'm just curious as to how that rolls out. Thank you.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I think one of the key components that was explained by the deputy minister was exactly what it is, a coordinator role, moving things along, playing the accountability structure of this division, and ensuring that we're able to reach our objectives and our targets. We have some pretty lofty goals as far as a territory of what we want to see, and I think they're important goals that we work hard to reach, and we can't reach those goals on our own. It requires an extreme amount of coordination with our stakeholders and our partners in that, being Indigenous governments, and also a lot of coordination and partnership with the federal government as well. Thank you.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you. What that just described sounded like a middle manager who worked with communities and community programs and schools. Maybe you could explain a little further, if you could, why they need to be an assistant deputy minister. That's -- I don't know the exact salary range but I mean, it's in the range of $200,000, I'm sure. So I mean, why couldn't a manager do this or two managers? You know, one north, one south. Thank you.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, in addition to, you know, the accountabilities that we've described, this person also is accountable to a team of people below them that support the work that they're doing. And so it's not just one or two people that they're supporting in this work. Thank you.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
So who is this team and where exactly are they and who is supervising them now?
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. For the operational detail of that, I will pass it to the deputy minister.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Jamie Fulford
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So part of what this revised structure allows is a consolidation of areas like languages, for example. So right now, there's an executive director that's responsible for the French language secretariat. There's a director responsible for the Indigenous language and education secretariat. And what it allows is some economies of scale, putting like together, and really elevating the profile of these important pieces of the work of ECE. We have -- we're in the process of doing those, as the Minister mentioned, job evaluation. That work will be made public imminently in the next month or so likely. So that role supported the heightened accountability and salary of an assistant deputy minister reporting directly to me as deputy minister. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
So specifically how much is targeted to this particular position all in? Thank you.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What other considerations were given other than hiring another senior-senior manager? Why didn't we just hire a middle manager or a programs person to help support the communities and committees working to continue to strengthen their language? And we could easily put one in South Slave and the North Slave for half that price. Thank you. Well, not half, but you know what I'm saying.
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 4th