Thank you, Mr. Speaker-elect. During my brief run for Premier, I received a lot of feedback from members of the public service. They liked a lot of the things I was talking about in terms of how to change the system and change the way we do business, so the public service is ready for change. They are not opposed to change. We need to support them to make that change. I think that's the issue.
I was talking to one of my colleagues earlier and they said that, you know, the government will have a policy out and then the public service finally figures out how to implement it, and then they change the policy. So people aren't resistant to change, but they need to be supported and, if there are problems with it, they need to be heard. They need to be part of the system. There needs to be that feedback I've been talking about.
If there is a problem, if there is a bottleneck when it comes to this change, if there is someone in a position somewhere who, no matter what you do, just won't comply, then that's when you need to lean on your Premier because, as a Minister, you can't hire and fire people in your department. The management of it is done by the deputy ministers, who are responsible to the Premier, so we need to work as a team and we need to make sure that our Premier is going to have our back. I'm not sure if she's had any pushback in the past for any changes she wanted to make.
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I think that she knows what it's like and that she'd be there to support us, and we need that kind of support. Thank you, Mr. Speaker-elect.