Mr. Chairman, on the other parts of the responsibility of this task, under human resources, affirmative action. Any time there is a vacancy in the department, especially in the communities at the level of superintendent or maybe assistant superintendent, there seems to be a lack of aboriginal people in that area. Part of the affirmative action policy is to try to get native northerners involved in this area, and there seems to be a lack of that going on, not only in this department but in other departments, too.
I know that there are people out there in the different departments and specifically in this department, that desire to be at that level in this department, but for one reason or another, through the application and through the screening and through the interviews and so forth, they get weeded out, many times because they don't have the experience in management or so forth. But if they are never given the opportunity to be in management positions, they will always be weeded out of these types of positions.
I would like to ask the Minister if his department is willing to look at some of the positions at the superintendent and assistant superintendent levels where they could make it into a term position, and, at the same time, have a training position for some of these people that I just mentioned? Has the department looked at that possibility of trying to meet the affirmative action policy by introducing training positions at the
superintendent and assistant superintendent levels? Thank you.