David Ramsay
Statements in Debates
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Public Works and Services. I am trying to understand how it is that a report on the Dene K’onia facility in Hay River, which was last year discussed as a renovation project to house the territorial treatment centre, came out on January 11, 2006, and Public Works and Services issued a request for tender in an April newspaper here in the Northwest Territories requesting quotes to demolish the Dene K’onia facility in Hay River and subsequently yanked that tender. I am trying to, again, understand how it is that the...
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
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Thank you, committee. Mr. Hawkins.
Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The motion is in order. To the motion. Ms. Lee.
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. The motion is in order. To the motion.
Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I've told the Minister this before, but these problems that we're encountering today in HR came from the various departments when he amalgamated HR, and I think it's incumbent upon the Minister to show the leadership and go back to the departments where the problems came from, and they exist in a number of departments and he knows which ones they are. Go back and recoup some of the money, Mr. Speaker. The Minister didn't answer my question. When will service levels improve? That is the big question, Mr. Speaker, and I want the Minister to commit...
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
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Thank you, committee. Mr. Hawkins.
Thank you, Ms. Lee. The motion is in order. To the motion.
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. The motion is in order. To the motion.
Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I guess if the focus has been on old files, it obviously hasn't been on customer service to both our employees, the public, people who are applying for jobs, because that lack of customer service is very, very evident to the people I've been speaking with, Mr. Speaker. Just in terms of records of employment, let's just look at that for a second here. I'm wondering if the Minister's aware that by legislation you're supposed to supply a record of employment to an employee within 10 days. I'm wondering if the government has some special deal concocted...
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
---Carried
Thank you. Mr. Hawkins.