Human Resources committee  I don't really know the system, how it works here. I don't think I can talk on that, really.

Human Resources committee  I think the minimum wage is $8 or $10.

Human Resources committee  I think all businesses are different, but most of the people I know receive at least $10 to $12.

Human Resources committee  And there's tourism.

Human Resources committee  It's hard to tell. I don't have any stats from across Canada, so it's hard. I can just talk about the food bank clients. A lot of my clients have addiction problems, but I cannot give any stats on that. I don't even know if there are stats on that in the Yukon.

Human Resources committee  When I said that the food bank didn't exist, we did have discussions for 10 years in the Yukon, and in fact we've been working on this. The Yukon society is the funder or helper that puts the food bank on. One of the reasons is because the territorial government didn't recognize

Human Resources committee  Maybe I can add that we need a lot of services for a lot of our clients, all of us, but it's hard here to get the proper staff, to keep them, and sometimes it's because of housing issues or sometimes it's because of the salary not meeting the expenses. A lot of services are comin

Human Resources committee  Yes, we are starting to have a lot of newcomers. In the last few years, Whitehorse has become a place where immigrants are arriving. They're coming from all around the world straight to Whitehorse, and that's new. Since September, I've seen a couple of people coming through who a

Human Resources committee  For sure, most of our clients are first nations, but I never did a count, actually. I'm not quite sure; it's pretty close here to half and half, I'd say. A lot of our clients have the choice to show their ID. Sometimes they don't show their first nations card. I cannot tell wheth

Human Resources committee  For at least ten years in Whitehorse we've been discussing having a food bank service available to the most needy citizens. It was obvious that we needed that kind of service. We opened the doors on April 30 of this year, so it's new. We had the board working on this for over a y