Ms. Aisling Gogan at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On June 10th, 2008. See this statement in context.

June 10th, 2008 / 4:05 p.m.

Director, Poverty Reduction Strategy Division, Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

Aisling Gogan

Thank you.

In developing the areas in which we felt working with the federal government would be beneficial, we certainly looked at past agreements and past areas. We didn't consult directly at that time with the federal government to any great extent. We did reach out and had some very preliminary discussions, but we didn't find a lot of engagement on the issue at the official level back in 2005, when we were doing most of the work on this.

More recently we have started to discuss this more with our federal colleagues. I'm not sure if that answers your question or if there was a specific area you were interested in.

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