Glen Abernethy

I believe that’s the direction that we’re going and I look forward to the Member sharing that book with me once he’s done reading it. We have a 10-year strategic plan and we have a five-year implementation plan, and a lot of it is about prevention, quite frankly. We need to find ways to keep our jails as empty as possible.

We are working on a Community Safety Strategy which we have had a lot of discussion about and a draft strategy has been developed, and we’ve got a general idea of what it’s going to look like and now we’re looking at doing some piloting around that. I would be happy...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Department of Justice was one of the three highest on claims history over the last couple of years. I will say, for the record, that the department is committed to workplace health and safety. In fact, over the last year we had dedicated a senior management position to do some analysis and put some plans in place within the department so that we can see a real reduction in claims in the Department of Justice. In particular, in our facilities where we’re seeing the incidents occur. Since 2010 we have seen a 36 percent reduction in the number of Justice WSCC claims as...

Thank you, Madam Chair. There are a number of things happening in this area. We have a – I’m going to pronounce it poorly and I apologize for that – it’s Wekeahkaa: A New Day, which is a healing program which we have available and we’re just rolling this out as a pilot right now. We’ve done some contracting on there. It’s for men who have used violence in domestic relationships or other relationships. That’s rolling out right away. We continue to have – I’ve just blanked. I apologize. We have the Wekeahkaa.

None that I am aware of. They’ve had challenges. They’ve all experienced some degree of growing pains as they’re making these things become a reality and we’re trying to learn what some of those challenges were for them so that we don’t have to live through the same types of pains should we choose to accept the model. I will point out that I would say there’s no two models that are the same out there and we, as a territory, I think we say it over and over again, we’re unique in many ways. So we want to make sure that the model that is applied here works for here. So we want to learn from the...

That reduction is a result of a decrease in funding provided by the federal government in that particular program area.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The feasibility study is scheduled to be completed by March 31st. I’ve had discussions about the early draft that’s out there that’s within the department being worked on by the committee, which includes Health and Social Services, Justice and Education, Culture and Employment are also participating. I’m really close to taking that to Cabinet. Once it’s gone through Cabinet we’ll be bringing it to committee for discussion and about how we move forward, and the exact things the Member is talking about is the discussion we’re going to have to have once we’ve got all the...

The government will have a continued involvement in the implementation of any action items that come out of the foundation. I won’t commit to a secretariat, but I will commit that the government will maintain being actively engaged. We will work with our partners as we move forward and we’ll continue to monitor the results. Without seeing the final plan, it’s a little hard to say exactly how that’s done. We expect some recommendations on how to monitor it and move forward with it to actually come from the steering committee as part of the action plan.

The first step is to get the foundation document done, which will be March 31st. That will be available for public distribution at that point. The second step is with the steering committee that’s been established that includes members from the Anti-Poverty Coalition as well as Aboriginal governments and other organizations. We’re going to continue to work with them and our working group to actually pull together a response to the framework which will be our action plan which will identify what things the government and other groups need to do to fight and combat poverty here in the Northwest...

Mr. Speaker, the universal skills required to lead people, champion innovation and manage change are becoming even more important, given the GNWT’s complex and ever-changing work context. These skills combine with our staff’s technical skills and knowledge to make them strong, capable leaders. I am pleased to announce that our new Senior Management Competency Model will guide the development of management expertise within the public service as we work to achieve the 17th Assembly’s vision and goals.

The Senior Management Competency Model provides a description of the patterns of behaviours that...

The Member is right; that is pretty much exactly what we’re going for, which is why we’ve engaged a steering committee that does have Aboriginal government representation as well as NGO engagement. We have been, and I have personally been, sending letters to the different Aboriginal governments and organizations of the Northwest Territories seeking additional input. We had Aboriginal governments involved in the working groups as well. I will continue to do that. We know that is critical. We know we have to engage all of our partners.

With respect to industry, our steering committee does have a...