Vince McKay

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have an increase of four positions here: director of emergency management legislation and systems review; manager of emergency management policy; legislative policy analysis; director of finance and administration; and a decrease of an administrative assistant.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, just implementing the after-action review and all the recommendations that are essentially being approved. And I will just ask the deputy minister to add some remarks to that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is the goal behind this. Yeah, I would hope that it's successfully funded but I guess we won't know until after everything's all tabulated after the games are done. But, you know, we're pretty confident that it should be fine. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. It would be essentially -- well, there's an overarching idea; it's whether or not the community capacity can support that and that's, I would say, the key thing there, is there has to be some community supports from the members to provide, you know, essentially the service. And the goal here is hopefully for the government to provide equipment and support the community in a pre-facility transport. The communities essentially that are already established, there's goals of supporting that already, and we have some funding available for them that are already provided...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With me, deputy minister Gary Brennan. And also Catherine Boyd, director of corporate affairs.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess the -- you know, not trying to avoid answering the question, I guess, just to be clear. It's -- sometimes it's different demands on the contract, different demands on the winter road or ice road, different demands of the contractor, sometimes changes to the route because we have to haul, you know, 25-foot-wide trailers up to Colville Lake for a school. So there's different scenarios where we're having to build up the road because of certain conditions. So yeah, for the most part, I think, you know, I appreciate the comments made by the Member and looking --...

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. We don't have the full details on obviously cost savings at the moment, but I will commit to coming back and reporting back to committee as we're going along. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. There was a position that was there but really not filled, I guess, as a water treatment plant/utilidor corridor operator in Fort McPherson that -- I believe that's what you're talking about. That's the one we lost. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have lots of those tradespeople; however, they also have a right whether to accept an apprenticeship student underneath them. So, you know, if there's interested employees out there that are watching and are interested in getting an apprentice, please let your manager know. But there's always that appetite to train new people in departments. Thank you.