Daryl Dolynny

Mr. Speaker, I too rise again today here and to support this motion. I would like to thank the mover of the motion, Ms. Bisaro, and the seconder, Mr. Bouchard. We spoke passionately here in this House about cyberbullying for our time here. I know there have been other Members of the Legislative Assembly of years past who have done the same.

The message is quite clear: we have to go beyond what is in print. We have to go beyond what we do in promotion. We have to go and do everything possible as legislators. This motion does speak to this. This motion asks us to put some meat on the bone when it...

I do appreciate the deputy minister’s response. I mean, I’m not going to deny creating a centre of excellence, as was mentioned here today. That should be the goal of any organization, whether it’s in government or in business. But it has to be said that if you’re going to do this, you need to quantify or at least predict what your savings are going to be and we didn’t hear that today. We heard it’s only $165,000, we’re going to be doing a whole bunch of changes, we’re going to have all these topnotch people come down and do the buying for the government, and trust us.

I would expect that in...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 15 on the Order Paper, notices of motion.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Aumond is a wise man to agree with the Minister. I am still trying to wrap my head around this. Are we seeing savings in the benefits of the employees or are we seeing benefits in that we are more centralized in our procurement? At the end of the day, we are seeing a monumental shift in the procurement shared services of the organization and we are seeing a whole shift in this financial shared services model kind of overlapping on the same framework. What is the savings predicted to be under this procurement shared services model? With us spending all this extra...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Minister’s response. Knowing that this Minister seeks the highest standards in forming industry partnerships, as we’ve heard, and the quality of the skilled workforce, would the Minister commit to investigating the current barriers of the Targeted Wage Subsidy Program delivery, work within our Canada-Northwest Territories Labour Market Development Agreement, and report back to this House a strategy and an action plan to improve such a barrier?

I’m satisfied with the explanations. No further questions.

I appreciate the Minister’s response to that. The Department of Education, Culture and Employment supports the development, maintenance and delivery of designated trades, occupational training programs and the development of our skilled northern workforce.

Can the Minister describe, in the event of an apprentice having employer difficulties, what are the options of this apprentice to seek help or assistance?

I guess, for just an explanation, what are these new offices, which weren’t on the so-called operations plan last time we did this, supposedly going to be providing in terms of service?

Furthermore, let’s make sure this Targeted Wage Subsidy Program is owned by the apprentice and not the employer.

I will have questions later today for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment on finding better ways to achieve a better balance that we currently see with the Targeted Wage Subsidy Program and our Apprenticeship Program as a whole. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mahsi.

I have no further questions.