Robert Bouchard

Mr. Speaker, I’m not looking for the summer students, I’m looking for students who are in their third and fourth year, so they have an opportunity to come back. We have a goal to have 2,000 more people come to the Northwest Territories, and I think getting our students back to the Northwest Territories is key.

Is the department willing to go and talk to those students and tell them we have certain jobs, we have some internship jobs for you, so that they’re not looking to go? I’m not looking for summer jobs where we just say, well, you just apply. I want to know that we’re getting our students...

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Bromley.

Page 337, Lands, operations, operations expenditure summary, $11.770 million. Mr. Bromley.

We’ll return to page 325, department as a whole, Department of Lands, $29.268 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have questions for the Minister of Human Resources today. He spoke today about our positions in getting students jobs. Obviously, it’s a priority of mine. I’ve had questions before in the House. Obviously, the Minister’s statement says we’re going to have the students research GNWT departments and agencies to find units related to their field.

The first question I have is: Is the department going to be proactive and go to the students and make contact? From what we know, they now have the ability to make contact with them. Are they going to contact the students and...

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Director Hilderman.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll take that as a general comment. Committee, we’re on page 333, informatics, operations expenditure summary, $7.119 million. Agreed?

Page 344, lease commitments. Questions?

Thank you. Next on my list I have Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.