Tom Beaulieu

No. I agree that we had already approved all of this, so we are moving forward.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'm just looking at again the inclusive schooling budget and I'm looking at things like the rates of graduation. Something indicates to me that if you have very low graduation rates that then there would be a higher need for inclusive schooling. I'm wondering if, in addition to the maybe sort of like an informal assessment that's being done by teachers, for I don't really know what purpose if it's not going to shift inclusive school dollars. We also have a long history of knowing what the graduation rates are between communities, whether they be large...

Thanks Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, back to inclusive schooling, can the Minister advise if it's based on the assessment of the student, I was wondering if they need to have parental consent before they assess the individual students?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, that was the response I was looking for. I just wanted to indicate that with the departments that we are reviewing, because there is information out there on the various ways that the departments go about hiring people into the department. I just wanted to confirm for the record that this department follows the Affirmative Action Policy all the time. Each hire that comes into Education, Culture and Employment, so there is never a situation where individuals would just be hired without going through a process that is the affirmative action program that the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to continue on with Tabled Document 50-18(2), NWT Main Estimates, 2016-2017 and we would like to do the Department of Education, Culture and Employment today. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Can the Minister advise how the Department of ECE will be allocating the small community employment program to the communities, whether project based or so much per community, just a quick word on how the funding will be allocated to the small communities?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes. I had indicated in my question that it was qualified Priority 1 candidates. Just to get this very clear and on the record, the Minister is indicating that if Priority 1 candidates are qualified in accordance with the job description that is put out there, then they only interview the Priority 1 candidates in round one of interviews. We will call it round one of interviews. It may not go beyond that. Is that what I am hearing? That only Priority 1 candidates will be interviewed? Thank you.

Rather than bringing it up for a political sense and discussing it with the Minister, there is nothing in place, then, to ensure that Priority 1 candidates applying for jobs, who are qualified, are given every opportunity into getting a job. Right now, as I understand it, whether you are a qualified Priority 1 candidate or not, you go through the steps that... I cannot talk about specific cases here, but I will talk directly to the Minister about the specific cases. If a Priority 1 individual is going to apply for a job where there is actually an individual filling that position as a casual...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman. I recognize that that is the role of the appeal officers to look at potential procedural errors. What I'm asking is, is there anything aside from procedural errors that makes the appeal process almost redundant? If you're only looking at procedural errors and you're not looking at anything outside of that, this appeal process is… You know, as the Minister indicated we may be the only jurisdiction to have that type of process because it's probably not effective because it looks at just procedures. What I want to know is are there any potential or future...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to continue their consideration of the mains with the Department of Human Resources today.