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October 9, 1998

After spending more than a year poring over spread-sheets, flow-charts and budgets, Nunavut's 11 deputy ministers and the Office of the Interim Commissioner unveiled a final plan for Nunavut's decentralized government. Jobs and government functions are being distributed among 11 communities.

The OIC's master plan for Nunavut: 100 more jobs than Footprints 2

Nunavut residents finally have a plan that sets out once and for all where more than 1200 Nunavut government jobs will be located.

Nunatsiaq News

IQALUIT — By the time the final draft of a master plan for Nunavut's civil service was tabled last week, the projected size of government in Canada's new territory had already swollen by 100 bodies.

Instead of the 1,100 employees originally forecast in the Nunavut Implementation Commission's Footprints 2 report, Nunavut leaders approved a job plan that would squeeze more than 1,200 public servants onto the government payroll.

More than half of these extra positions will be created in Iqaluit, but the job plan put forward by Interim Commissioner Jack Anawak also improves the outlook for Rankin Inlet, Pangnirtung, Arviat and Baker Lake.

Anawak's plan was approved Oct. 1 by Nunavut leaders meeting in Ottawa.

Overall, some 433 new full-time headquarters positions in Iqaluit have been identified. All Nunavut government departments, along with the Legislative Assembly are to have head offices in the capital.

The plan also calls for 215 positions to be gradually shifted out of Iqaluit and redistributed among four other Baffin communities, where some 50 GNWT positions already exist.

Six other communities — three in the Kitikmeot and three in the Keewatin — will share the remaining 500 positions, of which several are currently held by GNWT employees.

The deviations from the Footprints 2 model were deemed necessary, partly to minimize the impact of relocation on public servants, but also to ensure that government services are not interrupted during the transition to the Nunavut government.

Pangnirtung gains
In the Baffin region, Pangnirtung, (pop. 1,300), will experience the most significant influx of jobs, with a total of 78 positions in health and education being transferred from the capital and distributed as follows:

• 44 jobs with the Department of Health and Social Services;
• 18 jobs with the Baffin regional board of education;
• 16 jobs with the Department of Education.
  

The largest number of new jobs in the Keewatin will flow to the community of Arviat (pop. 1,600), which picks up 61 new positions in addition to existing GNWT jobs.

Positions in Arviat
Some of the positions have already begun to move into Arviat, and will continue to move as office space and housing becomes available. The new jobs will be distributed as follows:

• 27 new jobs in the Education Department;
• 14 new jobs in the Department of Community Government, Housing and Transportation (CGHT);
• 10 new jobs in the Department of Sustainable Development;
• 6 new jobs in Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth (CLEY);
• 2 jobs in the Department of Justice;
• 2 jobs in Public Works, Telecommunications and Technical Services.
  

Kitikmeot jobs
In the Kitikmeot, the hamlets of Gjoa Haven (pop. 900) and Kugluktuk (pop. 1,200) will each see the addition of 23 government jobs, mostly in the Department of Community Government, Housing and Transportation (CGHT).

For Kugluktuk, this will bring the total number of Nunavut government positions to 56, with new jobs distributed as follows:

• 12 positions under CGHT;
• 2 positions in the Department of Public Works, Telecommunications and Technical Services;
• 9 jobs in the Department of Justice;
  

In Gjoa Haven, the new jobs will be distributed as follows:

• 10 jobs with CGHT;
• 5 jobs with the Nunavut Liquor Commission;
• jobs on the Nunavut Liquor Licensing Board;
• 5 jobs with Nunavut's Legal Services Board.
  

Igloolik benefits
Another community well-poised to reap the benefits of Nunavut's decentralized government is Igloolik (pop. 1,200), seat of Nunavut government's new Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth (CLEY).

In addition to current GNWT employees, Igloolik is preparing for 72 new full-time jobs — three fewer than forecast in Footprints 2 — of which 13 are jobs transferred from the capital. They are distributed as follows:

• 24.5 new jobs with CLEY;
• 18 jobs with Sustainable Development;
• 17 jobs in Finance and Administration;
• 6 jobs with CGHT;
• 4 jobs with the Department of the Executive and Intergovernmental Affairs (DEIGA);
• 3 jobs with the Personnel Department.
  

Baker Lake
The job plan calls for the creation of 52 new full-time jobs in the hamlet of Baker Lake (pop. 1,400), future home of the Nunavut Workers' Compensation Board.

The new positions, in various levels of responsibility, will supplement those jobs currently held by GNWT staff and are distributed as follows:

• 20 new jobs with the Workers' Compensation Board;
• 13 jobs with CGHT;
• 9 positions with the Health and Social Services Department;
• 4 jobs with the Department of the Executive and Intergovernmental Affairs (DEIGA);
  

A total of 65 Nunavut government positions will be transfered to Pond Inlet from regional headquarters of the GNWT's Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, and from the Department of Public Works.

Pond Inlet
The final number of jobs moving to Pond Inlet is seven fewer than anticipated in the Footprints 2 report and will be distributed as follows:

• 45 jobs in the Department of Public Works, Telecommunications and Technical Services;
• 20 new jobs in the Department of Sustainable Development.
  

Most of the 56 new civil servant positions in Cape Dorset will also be in the form of positions transferred out of Iqaluit, to be distributed as follows:

• 41 jobs in CGHT;
• 7 new jobs in the Department of Sustainable Development;
• 4 new positions with the Nunavut Development Corporation;
• 4 new positions with Nunavut's Business Credit Corporation.

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