Mr. Maurice Zoe at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On February 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.

February 8th, 2007 / 5:05 p.m.

Aboriginal Site Coordinator, Ekati Diamond Mine, BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc.

Under the IBA with the company, BHP, we have a hiring target of 200 aboriginal people from the Dogrib Nation, and because we're dealing with entry-level people with low skills, we can't put all of them in to fill those 200 positions. So our target number is 200. And we have 175 aboriginal people from my community employed with BHP at an average wage of about $70,000 a year.

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