Glen Abernethy

We are moving along to 4-23. Mr. Krutko.

Is committee agreed that we’ve concluded consideration of the Department of Executive?

Thank you. We are moving along to 4-16, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, information item, negotiations, active positions.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just in closing, a final question. This is important and timing is essential on this. The reserves are trying to increase their number up to 100 in the next couple of years. If we don’t put this in place soon, there will be disincentives for individuals that are considering joining the reserves due to the uncertainty about protection of themselves as well as their employers. I’m wondering if we can get the Minister to commit to get some action on this file right away and, hopefully, get a legislative proposal in front of committee in the life of this government so we...

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Krutko? Alright. We’re on page 4-9, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, department summary, information item, active position summary.

Thank you, Premier Roland. Are there any further questions, Mr. Krutko? We are on page 4-19, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, activity summary, implementation, operations expenditure summary, $664,000.

Page 2-32, Executive, information item, lease commitments – infrastructure.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Premier Roland.

To the Minister’s point, in the GNWT we already have collective agreements and rules and regulations that would obviously support reservists from the GNWT participation. That doesn’t help all employees and reservists in the Northwest Territories. The Minister is right that our numbers are low; 26 doesn’t seem very high at this point, but the reservists want to get to a contingent of over 100 people here in the next couple of years. Now’s the time. They’ve done a bunch of the work already. I’m happy to share with the Minister some comments that were brought to me from constituents and concerned...

Moving along to 4-9, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr. Krutko.