Glen Abernethy

There are three training positions in the associate director training positions every year. They change locations on a regular basis, depending on who is recruited into them and where they’re from. Last year there was one in the Deh Cho. There may not be one in the Deh Cho and these numbers suggest that there isn’t necessarily one in the Deh Cho this year. But there also may be. I don’t know which department that particular associate director training person was in. I can confirm to the Members where the current group of associate director trainees are and it could be that there isn’t one in...

I’m guilty of that myself once in awhile. It’s noted and we will make sure that it’s brought up to the committee to make sure we continue to push that initiative.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For some of the specifics on that and the actual costs and the individual numbers, it’s best to go to Mr. Lewis, so I’d like to pass it on to Mr. Lewis.

Yes, please.

I can’t tell you why it swelled up to $103,000 in previous years. The actual uptake was only around $20,000 so we felt it was more appropriate to indicate what the trend has been as opposed to whatever this $103,000 was in previous years. Or last year, sorry.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just going back a little bit, this corporate human resource section is the section that has that health recruitment unit that we were talking about previously. The GNWT Green Team currently has representatives from 12 of 14 departments, including the Housing Corporation sitting on our committee. There is also one outside agency, the Arctic Energy Alliance, who has committed a member to participate on the committee. The committee has initiated conversations and relationships with the federal government Green Team and is participating in their meetings as well.

Our Green...

Ultimately, as the Member said earlier today, the responsibility for a buildings standard code in the Northwest Territories would ultimately be up to MACA, and we’re absolutely happy to work with MACA, share our expertise, provide any sort of guidance around the specifics that we can, and we will do that if MACA does take that direction.

I’m always happy to sit down with the Member and committee to discuss their concerns and issues, and I’d be happy to discuss this in greater detail with the Member.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe this was brought up during the interim budget as well. There has been an increase of one position at corporate human resources. There was a labour relations advisor that sunsetted. We’re bringing it back. Is that correct? One sunsetted, we’re bringing it back, and then we’re bringing back an additional one to help us with some of the workload in the labour relations division. So two there, one new.

The unit that we’re talking about which is in the corporate human resources is more of a planning unit and delivers some specific programs to encourage people to go into the health professions. The allied health recruitment unit is the unit that’s actually doing the staffing for individual jobs, out there recruiting or advertising for position X and following it through to the hiring of somebody in position X. They’re more the action unit with the actual individual jobs who are doing the actual hiring with the authorities.