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Yes, this is open because in the smaller communities the government has different departments.
Like in Coral Harbour, they have nursing stations, the schools, the public works.
Each community has government departments working within the community so the students can apply and we can work with the departments to make sure that the students can be hired during the summer.
A supplementary to Mr. Arvaluk’s question in regards to the smaller communities that are non-decentralized to see what kinds of plans we can make because they do have the same number of students and they should be treated equally.
So, can the Minister commit to me that when they go back to their office, that they can make plans for the smaller communities.
Hon. Peter Kilabuk (interpretation): Mr. Chairman, as I’ve stated, we’re open. Even in the smaller communities we know there are students in the smaller communities but because their operating funds are limited they may not have the same opportunities.
In regards to the smaller communities, this is not the first time that we’ve heard about it because the smaller communities would like that opportunity for their students to work during the summer.
We’re working on it now but at this time we have not come up a final plan.
Summer student employment, this is assistance for the summer employment for the various departments.
We want to assist the most number of students within the schools.
Since this is not new to you, they should already be making the plans now if they were serious about it.
So I’m encouraging the department to provide more support to the smaller communities for summer student employment.
The Minister said that it’s not the first time he’s heard that.
They should not just be considering it.
They should be planning at this stage now.
I would like to clarify to my colleague, I’m not trying to be difficult for this program but because we don’t have past experience with summer student employment.
We had to base it on experience from the year before.
I’m not saying that we’re not considering how to improve this program so that the smaller communities can benefit.
This is going to be a continuing of the program but I want to clarify to the member that we’re not trying to drag our decision but we still have not tabled the plan for it.
Ms. Williams (interpretation): Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for his response.
I’m sure the public out there listening understands that as the Minister stated, this is not the first time he heard about it.
Even if it’s some employment in the community, it’s good.
If it’s just for the summer, it’s automatically very good for the community. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I will deem that as a yes.
Purchase Services. $2 million, 380 thousand.
What did you purchase for the department under this line item?
Chairperson (interpretation): Mr. Arvaluk, what line item are you asking?
Mr. Arvaluk (interpretation): Page 4-6.
I thought we were still on that page.
Chairperson (interpretation): Yes, I’m sorry we’re on 4-6, if you understood his question, Minister Kilabuk.
For the purchase services, for various employees, they have to travel and move and they’re for transportation such as plane tickets and packing and moving their property and also for job competition.
Expense packaging; how far are we from completing relocation or decentralization relocation of staff from outside of those particular decentralized communities?
I realize that when NIC decided that we would be decentralized government but there was no training done for local potential employees, Igloolik, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung, Baker Lake, etc.
We were lucky in some places like Rankin Inlet that we had regional centres.
These people were already working for the GNWT.
But other places, Pond Inlet, Igloolik, they were not prepared to take on these decentralized positions.
As a result, some of these Iqaluit regional office staff become DMs, ADMs and some have to be moved to Pangnirtung, Igloolik, etc.
They’re still doing that.
That’s what your purchase services are for I suppose.
My first question is, how are we doing in hiring local people from these decentralized communities and what percentage has to be relocated from Iqaluit or elsewhere to Igloolik or Baker Lake etc? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Decentralization the minister responsible should be responding to the question.
Yes, we will go on to that page 4-13.
You could already see that there is no funding provided for that.
Go back to 4-5.
They will need to agree on it because there was no agreement upon it.
Human Resources Branch Summary.
Operation and Maintenance. $5 million, 993 thousand.
Chairperson (interpretation): Human Resources Branch Summary, Assistant Deputy Minister, Community Operations, Total Operation and Maintenance. $2 million, 921 thousand, comments?
Chairperson (interpretation): Human Resources, Grant Summary, Job Evaluation and Organizational Design, page 4-8, Total Operation and Maintenance, $733 thousand, do you agree?
I have a question in this page, perhaps if you can tell me if I am out of line or if I can ask it on some other page.
For bilingual staff, for example, the staff, whether he be in senior position and if they can speak English and sometimes they have to be bilingual.
Not too many bilingual people get bilingual bonuses.
Perhaps, the Minister can tell me what kinds of positions are not eligible for bilingual bonuses and what kind of positions are eligible for bilingual bonuses and what are the criteria?
All staff are eligible for bilingual bonuses provided that they can speak more than one language and if they can communicate with the language or second language.
We have reviewed the bilingual bonus issue and how it can be improved, but they are provided $1,500 annually on bonuses, but I do not have the total figure.
I apologize, Mr. Chairman, I do not have the detailed information, but I can look into it.
Perhaps, if I can ask my question in another way, for example, Assistant Deputy Ministers or the Deputy Minister, are they eligible for bilingual bonus?
They are eligible, but, the language professionals such as interpreters and translators do not get bilingual bonuses.
How about the teachers in the communities?
I am trying to think about teachers who live in the community, the teacher has to be able to communicate with the parents and the majority of the parents at the community level are Inuit.
Are the teachers eligible too?
Hon. Peter Kilabuk (interpretation): Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, the teachers are eligible.
How do you determine what a bilingual bonus requirement is and so far, I have seen those who have no bilingual bonus, have no qualification under that cost spending, having to interpret on the telephone for the person who does not speak Inuktitut.
The majority of the Government employees speak English, except for the Department of Education and the Elders, instructors and things like that.
Everybody else in the administration support level does.
Is there consideration to enhance the program or at least evaluate it to change it for your Inuit employment plan or trying to reach the goal of 85 percent employment by 2020?
It should be included that anyone who becomes bilingual, gentleman sitting left to you learns to speak Inuktitut, should be getting bilingual bonus.
I think that would encourage everyone to try to speak Inuktitut or French.
Have you considered that, whether it’s a requirement or not, if you feel it’s a requirement or not, but if the person who is being hired is bilingual, would qualify under that bonus.
It doesn’t make a significant budget increase of $15 hundred dollars a year for everyone.
Yes, we’re doing a review on that right now to see what more we can do on this issue and which employees should be eligible.
We’re reviewing it right now.
We’re on page 4-8.
Job Evaluation and Organizational Design.
Total Operations and Maintenance, $733 thousand dollars.
Chairperson (interpretation): Turning the page. 4-9, Human Resources, Branch Summary, Inuit employment plan.
I touched upon that a little while ago.
The question I have is in regards to management.
You stated that in your opening remarks there is management training for your employees.
Management development program, whether the person is a Deputy Minister go on a contract or are they there at your pleasure.
The reason why I’m asking this question because if they’re on a contract with your department, they could teach the individuals under management program and if he or she feels that they can be a Deputy Minister for a long time or at your pleasure they will not want to train anyone in their place.
If I understand his question correctly, I stated in my opening remarks that there are 14 trainees or interns.
If I understand his question correctly, say for instance, he talked about the Assistant Deputy Minister; those that are on contract are done through the Premier’s office.
What I was concerned about was, like I said before, if a Deputy Minister wants to retain his or her position, they would not want to teach another individual to take their place.
Yes, I understand now what the situation is.
How do you rate those Management Development Programs students?
We review them every month to see what level that they are at.
On page 4-9, on your business plan under the Inuit Employment Plan, you have one of your priorities was to develop internship opportunities in all departments.
Can you just try the same thing as you were saying ‘training-on-the-job’?
There are those fourteen internships; they are like on-the-job training.
In my community we have the Regional Office for example.
Are there some people at that level, where you have a Regional Trainees training positions?
I know that there is one under the Community Government in Cambridge Bay, but I am not sure if we have any other areas in the Kitikmeot; if you can give me that information.
People participating from the Kitikmeot region are under the Motor Vehicles department in Gjoa Haven, and in Kugluktuk, Sustainable Development.
Mr. Havioyak: The partnership with Nunavut Arctic College and the Department of Finance provides pre employment programming.
Can you elaborate a little bit?
It may be something that I was referring to during one of the Question Period about one of the Mining Companies applying for this partnership program.
Maybe it is a different area.
It says here that Arctic College.
Maybe if you can explain that a little bit?
What that is?
We are working in partnership with Nunavut Arctic College and the Department of Education.
I will get some more clarification on that first.
I am sorry; perhaps if I can get clarification from Mr. Thompson.
That refers to a number of programs.
One, as you know the Department of Finance is also running some of their own intern training programs for financial positions, through their own budget.
We are working cooperatively with that department and the Nunavut Arctic College to determine the needs for that group.
Most of it will be on the job training; however there may be some pre-employment training courses that might be common to all the participants of that course.
So we work cooperatively with those candidates as well as the ones in the management intern program, identify some of those common learning requirements and then negotiate with the college to deliver programs for those candidates.
Okay, I guess I take it most are at the regional level or are they mostly headquarters when you’re saying that you have partnerships or training programs with finance.
I’m just trying to get a sense of where you’re at.
Is it at the community, headquarter, or regional level when you’re talking about these trainees?
It’s all over.
Mostly in the management and in various departments such as the Department Finance, the Department of Education, Department of Health, Sustainable Development and Motor Vehicles Division, the Fire Department, Executive and Intergovernmental Affairs is another one, the Department of Justice.
They are in various departments Mr. Chairman.
Under that business plan, page 4-8 of the Inuit employment plan, I think, if I recall, the government started talking about that right at the outset in 1999, how to recruit Inuit with the goal to hire proportionately, approximately 85 percent, etc.
That was not really a target but that’s proportional to the population.
We’ve been hiring Inuit for quite some time since the Government of Nunavut, in fact some through Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
I recall some people going to Chillowack and becoming diesel mechanics and power plant operators and things like that who are unilingual in British Columbia when we’re still going to elementary school.
But it turned out that it seemed to become a really special way to determine how to employ Inuit, because it’s been almost for four years now.
Is there anything that we expect to see like a report or paper or policy direction or announcement from the government, a news release, anything to tell us that we have a new employment plan and here it is?
Do we expect to see anything soon along those lines or is it going to be just like Culture, Language, Elders and Youth where we hear a little bit here and a little bit there to this to date on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and that sort of thing.
Can you tell us a little bit more about how we will be informed that something is there?
The member is correct and we have made various announcements on this issue. We have tried to work with various partnerships such as NTI and federal government.
And NTI president Kathy Towtongie has attended some meetings with me to Ottawa in this regard, I could tell the member that the plans that we have in place right now are almost complete and we will provide it to the members and to our other partners as soon as they are available.
Mr. Arvaluk: Preparation for the plan according to your statements has been progressing well.
The stumbling block now is for the different organizations like NTI or federal government or do you expect to come with some sort of consensus as to how we can start employing Inuit or training them.
I think, this is what I’m trying to get here at is Mr. Chairman, is that, those who are waiting to be trained and employed are the ones who are going to be suffering these consequences of not being able to come up with some kind of decision from the government and NTI and who ever else wanted to be involved in that grand plan.
Can you tell me when do you expect to get something on paper this year, next year, two years from now?
Yes, the meeting that I mentioned in Ottawa, we met with Minister Nault and the NTI president and myself, we have to find out when we are going to be meeting again on that because we’re going to be funded largely from the Minster Nault’s office on that.
We have to work in partnership with them.
So, once that report is completed then our plan is completed then we will have it provided to the house or the members and we have not heard from them since the last meeting.
So, that’s where we are at right now.
Mr. Arvaluk: I hope this plan will not be redundant some time in the near future but I hear the Minister of Education wishing really hard to have a good education program in all levels of the grade 12 and training programs for the Inuit is being very aggressive in pursuing these thing and when that happens then the Inuit Employment Plan will be redundant because you’ll be hiring qualified southern employees from these post-secondary education graduates.
So, I hope something will happen so that this chronic unemployment problem with smaller communities will not continue needlessly.
I hear the member.
This time it’s not just for the larger communities.
It also includes the smaller communities, the centralized and the non-decentralized.
It is focused on the whole of Nunavut and not just concentrating in the larger ones.
In the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, this is based on the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement contents.
4-9, Human Resources, Grant Summary, Inuit Employment Plan, Total Operations and Maintenance, $5 million, 748 thousand.
Chairperson (interpretation): 4-10, Human Resources, Grant Summary, Training and Development, Total Operations and Maintenance, $1 million, 260 thousand.
Mr. Arvaluk: Mr. Chairman, this is a very good question on that one.
We were given an announcement from the Minister of Education that Students’ Financial Assistance will increase.
We also asked that nursing program will come similar to par with Akitsiraq Law School Students.
What I am getting at here is, there is no problem in hiring lawyers, but there is a big problem in hiring nurses and retaining nurses.
Program has to be enriched in order to keep the nurses in Nunavut with good bonuses and retention bonuses.
How are we doing with the nursing program and are there better allowances and financial situations of the students?
Has grades improved?
Is that part of the training and development area here?
Under this training and development, this training is for the Departments, it is for the training of the employees, for the staff.
It is not geared towards the Akitsiraq or the nursing program.
Human Resources, Grant Summary, Training and Development.
Total Operations and Maintenance, $1 million, 250 thousand.
Chairperson (interpretation): Turning over, 4-11 is part of what you guys are agreeing to.
Moving onto 4-12, Human Resources, Grant Summary, Employee Relations, Total Operations and Maintenance. $1 million, 753 thousand.
Mr. Arvaluk: This is FANS wording for working with the union.
How many PYs cover $866?
Hon. Peter Kilabuk (interpretation): Thank you, Mr. Chairman 9 positions.
4-12, Total Operations and Maintenance, $1 million, 753 thousand.
Chairperson (interpretation): Turning over, Human Resources, Grant Summary, Decentralization, Mr. Arvaluk.
Mr. Arvaluk: How are decentralization requirements are all being done?
There is no staff member that will be moving from where to where because it is zero.
Decentralization is now finished and if there should be anymore it would be applied through here.
Decentralization is all gone.
Mr. Arvaluk: That means that the employees of the Petroleum Products in Rankin Inlet will no longer be moving to Baker Lake.
I want to be perfectly clear.
(interpretation) Mr. Chairman, what I’m trying to say here is that Human Resources has been doing is identifying, establishing and the effect it will have on the employees and obtaining housing for the employees or training, are no longer going to be available.
Our department and if there has to be relocations, they will be handled in the same fashion that we use.
Chairperson (interpretation): Thank you, Minister Kilabuk. 4-13, there is not much we can do about that.
4-14, any comments.
If there are none on 4-14, we’ll go back to 4-4. 4-4, any comments.
I don’t believe there are any comments for 4-4.
Department Summary.
Total Operations and Maintenance. $19 million, 358 thousand dollars.
Chairperson (interpretation): Thank you, Department of Human Resources.
Minister’s Statement 126-1 (6), March 13, 2003.
Job descriptions.
Mr. Havioyak: I move that we report progress.
I think that was completed but I would like to thank the Minister for making an appearance before the Committee of the Whole and at this time there is a motion to report progress.
The speaker can return now.
Report of Committee of the Whole, Mr. Chairman.
Your committee has been considering Bill 30 and the main estimates and would like to report progress and also Mr. Speaker, I move that Committee of the Whole be concurred with.
Is there a seconder? Mr. Irqittuq.
Mr. Speaker, I would seek unanimous consent to go back to item number 18.
Speaker: The member is seeking unanimous consent to go back to item 18. Are there any nays.
Please proceed, Minister Picco.
Bill 33 – Tobacco Control Act – Second Reading
Hon. Ed Picco: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Rankin Inlet South, Whale Cove, that Bill 33.
The Tobacco Control Act be read for the second time.
Mr. Speaker, Thank you.
This bill will prohibit the sale of tobacco to minors.
It includes point of sale restrictions on tobacco products, restrictions on packaging and regulates where people can smoke.
The motion is in order to the principal of the bill. Question has been called.
All those apposed.
The motion is carried and Bill 33 has had second reading and accordingly the Bill stands referred to a committee.
Third Reading of Bills. Minister Kilabuk.
Bill 22 – An Act to Amend the Securities Act – Third Reading
I move, seconded by the Honourable member for Hudson Bay that Bill 22, an Act to amend the Securities Act, be read for the third time.
Order of the Day.
Orders of the day for Wednesday, March 26, 2003,
This House stands adjourned until Wednesday, March 26th, at 1:30 p.m.
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Pages 3245 - 3343
Opening Prayer 3245
Ministers’ Statements 3245
Members’ Statements 3247
Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery 3251
Oral Questions 3253
Revert to Item 5: Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery 3271
Tabling of Documents 3271
Notices of Motions 3272
Notices of Motions for the First Reading of Bills 3272
Reports of the Committee of the Whole 3341
Orders of the Day 3342
Wednesday March 26, 2003 3245
149 – 1(6): Early Childhood Education Program at Nunatta Campus, Nunavut Arctic College (Kilabuk) 3245
150 – 1(6): Nutrition Project for the Baffin (Picco) 3246
151– 1(6): Inuinnaqtun Interpreter/Translator Program (Akesuk) 3246
497 – 1(6): Water Quality and Supply (Havioyak) 3247
498 – 1(6): Gun Legislation (McLean) 3248
499 – 1(6): Illness in Pond Inlet (Nutarak) 3249
500 – 1(6): Iraq War (Alakannuark) 3249
501 – 1(6): Photo I.D for Patients (Williams) 3249
502 – 1(6): Funding Assistance for Elders (Irqittuq) 3250
503 – 1(6): Illnesses in the Past (Iqaqrialu) 3251
498 – 1(6): Water Supply System in Kugluktuk (Havioyak) 3253
499 – 1(6): Integrating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit into the Government System (Nutarak) 3254
500 – 1(6): Detail of Increase in Power Rates (McLean) 3256
501 – 1(6): Plans for a New Government Building in Arctic Bay (Williams) 3259
502 – 1(6): Inuinnaqtun Teachers in Schools (Iqaqrialu) 3260
503 – 1(6): Department of Sustainable Development’s Involvement in Diamond Mining (Irqittuq) 3261
504 – 1(6): Yearly Funding for Access Road in Repulse Bay (Alakannuark) 3262
505 – 1(6): Photo I.D. Cards (Tootoo) 3264
506 – 1(6): Assist Teachers to Obtain Bachelor of Education Degree (McLean) 3266
507 – 1(60): Plans for Changes to the Public Service Act (Tootoo) 3268
508 – 1(6): Nunavut Power Corporation Payment Agencies (Irqittuq) 3268
102 – 1(6): Nunavut Business Credit Corporation Loan Status as of February 28, 2003 (Akesuk) 3271
103 – 1(6): Nunavut-Manitoba Road – Kivalliq Inuit Association (Thompson) 3272
021 – 1(6): Extended Adjournment – Notice (McLean) 3272
Bill 34 – An Act to Amend the International Sale of Goods Act – Notice 3272
Speaker (Mr. O’Brien): I would like to call on Mr. McLean to say the opening prayer.
Minister Kilabuk
Minister’s Statement 149 – 1(6): Early Childhood Education Program at Nunatta Campus, Nunavut Arctic College
Mr. Speaker, I would like to inform the House of the partnership between Kakivak Association and Nunavut Arctic College that will provide community based Early Childhood Training.
Mr. Speaker, the value of the contract is $1.2 million to be spent over a period of 15 months from January 2003 to March 2004.
The Nunavut Arctic College has contributed to the training of qualified staff and development of resources.
Over the past 7 years the Nunatta Campus has delivered the Certificate in Early Childhood Education Program as well as Record of Achievement Program in Childcare Management. These accredited programs, which meet the standards of best practice, were delivered in Iqaluit, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, Qikiqtarjuaq, Kimmirut and Sanikiluaq.
Mr. Speaker, the Government of Nunavut commissioned a report on licensed daycares in Nunavut title “Looking Towards the Future.”
This document highlights the need for stable funding and adequate training.
It emphasizes the importance of elders in the childcare system and the importance of Inuit values in developing childcare programs.
The report identifies training issues for childcare services, which can guide long and short term planning of childcare in Nunavut.