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Footprints 2: a Second Comprehensive Report of the Nunavut Implementation Commission Footprints.-- 2 , A seiond comprehensive report of the Nunavut Implementation Commission 4 t I I A Second Comprehensive Report from the Nunavut Implementation Commission to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Government of the Northwest Tem'tories and Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated Concerning the Establishment of the Nunavut Government Letter of Transmittal from the Chairman of the NIC to the Minister of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the Government Leader of the Northwest Territories and the President of Nunavut Tunngavik ... Incorporated. .................................. ill Table of Contents .................................v List of Appendices ...............................vii ... Glossary ......................................vlll Body of Report .................................. 1 ONunavut lmplernentation Commission 1996. Quotation with appropriate credit is encouraged. This publication reproduces, with minor editorial amendments, a report submitted to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Government of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated under cover of a letter dated October 21,1996. ISBN 1-896548-20-2 Cette publication existe aussi en franqais sous le titre : trL1empreintede nos pas dans la neige fraiche, Volume 2,). Cover Illustration: Alootook Ipellie French translation: Marie-C6cile Brasseur and Daniel Seguin Printed in Canada by: Bradda Printing Srvices Inc. oa9' L<LTC~>~~~ Nunavut Hivumukpalianikhaagut Katimayit Nunavut Implementation Commission Commission d'eta blissement du Nunavut October 21, 1996 The Hon. Ron Irwin, Minister, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, Ontario The Hon. Don Morin, Premier, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, NWT Mr. Jose Kusugak, President, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Iqaluit, NWT Dear Mr. Irwin, Mr. Morin and Mr. Kusugak, On behalf of the Nunavut Implementation Commission (NIC), I am pleased to provide to you, under cover of this letter, a report of the NIC entitled Footprints 2: A Second Comprehensive Report of the Nunavut Implementation Commission. As its title reveals, this report constitutes the second comprehensive report of the NIC, following submission of our first comprehensive report in March, 1995, and a variety of stand alone reports on specialized topics. The report is being supplied to you consistent with the statutory mandate of the NIC as set out in section 58 of the Nunavut Act. NIC Commissioners were pleased that the model for the design of the Nunavut Government that was recommended in our first comprehensive report figured prominently in the federal Cabinet's consideration of Nunavut issues in the spring of this year. In the process of preparing this report, we have carried out an intensive review of that model in the context of some new and changing features of PO Box 1109, Iqaluit, NT XOA OH0 phone (819) 979-41 99, fax (81 9) 979-6862 the policy environment, most notably, the financial and other assumptions attending the federal Cabinet's Nunavut deliberations and the far-ranging overhaul in the design of the headquarters and regional operations of the Government of the Northwest Territories in the face of budget constraints. We are confident that the model for design of the Nunavut Government put forward in this report, while altered in detail from our earlier one, continues to meet broad objectives in relation to such things as efficiency of government operations and decentralization of government employment. While fine tuning government design is a central element of the report, the report covers many other topics, ranging from telecommunications policy, to the establishment of formula funding arrangements for Nunavut, to the administration of justice. Some of the topics covered in the report received considerable attention in our earlier report; others - such as language, issues - are new. One important set of topics - those dealing with the design of electoral constituencies for the Nunavut Legislative Assembly - are not dealt with substantively in this report; as you are aware, this set of issues will be the subject of a separate NIC report submitted to you before the end of 1996. Such timing should not foreclose any options that you may choose to pursue in relation to those topics. As we move closer to April 1, 1999, we are as conscious of how much work remains to be done towards the creation of the Nunavut Government as we are how much has been accomplished this far. The extensive and accelerating progress that has been made since the submission of the NIC1s last comprehensive report, however, leave us in no doubt that the great events of April 1,1999, can be anticipated with a great deal of optimism. This report is a product of the collegial efforts of the Commissioners, and is presented as a consensus one. We look forward to discussing this report with you. Sincerely, I GLOSSARY ........................................................................................VIII ... CHAPTER 1. OUTLOOK FOR NUNAVUT AND FOR WORK ON NUNAVUT ...............1 1.1 TAKINGSTOCK ................................................................................................... 1 1.2 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIESOF THETHREE PARTIES AND THE NIC ................................ 4 1.3 THE WORKOF THE NU2 AND THE THREEPARTIES TO DATE............................................ 6 1.4 MULTI-ORGANIZATIONALCO-OPERATION .................................................................. 8 CHAPTER 2 . CONTEXT. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THIS REPORT ................... 11 2.1 THE"FOOTPRINTS" REPORT AND SUPPLEMENTARYREPORTS ........................................ 11 2.2 RESPONSESTO THE NIC DESIGNMODEL ................................................................... 15 2.3 APRIL. 1996. DECISIONSOF THE FEDERALCABINET ................................................... 25 2.4 THE NEEDFOR REVIEW OF THE NIC "FOOTPRINTS"MODEL FOR DESIGNOF THE NUNAVUTGOVERNMENT ....................................................................................... 30 2.5 CONSIDERATIONSOF TIMING .................................................................................. 31 2.6 SCOPEOF THISREPORT .......................................................................................... 33 2.7 CONSULTATION ................................................................................................... 34 CHAPTER 3 . ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN OF THE NUNAVUT GOVERNMENT ..................................................................... 3.1 BACKGROUND..................................................................................................... 37 3.2 APRIL. 1996. FEDERALCABINET DECISIONS ............................................................. 43 3.3 RESPONSEOF GMAND NTI TO THE "FOOTPRINTS"MODEL ...................................... 44 3.4 REVIEWAND REVISIONOF THE "FOOTPRINTS"MODEL ............................................... 44 3.5 EFFECTOF PRIVATIZATIONAND DOWNSIZINGON THE MODEL ...................................... 57 3.6 FTE REQUIREMENTPROJECTIONS ........................................................................... 58 3.7 REVIEWAND APPROVAL........................................................................................ 58 CHAPTER 4 .' NEW APPROACHES TO WORK ..................................................61 4.1 BACKGROUND..................................................................................................... 61 4.2 WORKAND SOCIETALWELL-BEING ......................................................................... 63 4.3 THEFUTURE OF WORK:THE NUNAVUT CONTEXT ...................................................... 64 4.4 STRUCTURINGWORKING TIME IN THE NUNAVUTGOVERNMENT ................................... 67 4.5 TYPESOF FLEXIBLEWORKING ARRANGEMENTS ......................................................... 69 4.6 IMPLEMENTATIONCONSIDERATIONS ........................................................................ 73 4.7 FUTUREOF WORKIN NUNAVUTCONFERENCE ........................................................... 74 CHAPTER 5 . TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN NUNAVUT........................................ 77 CHAPTER 5 . TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN NUNAVUT (cntd) 5.9 TELECOMMUNICATIONSTRAINING AND TECHNICALSUPPORT ...................................... 107 5.10 TELECOMMUNICATIONSTECHNICAL SERVICES DIRECTORATE ...................................... 108 5.1 1 TOTALTELECOMMUN~CATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE AND INTRANETCOSTS ....................... 111 5.12 CREATINGA USABLEINFORMATION BASE FOR NUNAVUT............................................ 114 CHAPTER 6 . RECRUITMENT AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE NUNAVUT GOVERNMENT WORK FORCE ................................................ 6.1 OVERALLOBJECTIVES .......................................................................................... 121 6.2 TRAININGAND EDUCATION.................................................................................. 124 6.3 EXISTINGGNW EMPLOYEES ............................................................................... 127 6.4 BRMSAND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENTAND LABOURRELATIONS IN THE NUNAVUTGOVERNMENT WORK FORCE .................................................................. -134 6.5 PROCESSFOR MAKINGSTAFFING DECISIONS ............................................................. 138 CHAPTER 7. INFRASTRUCTURE ............................................................... 141 - 7.1 BACKGROUND...................................................................................................
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