Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It was pointed out to me late yesterday afternoon by the deputy minister that perhaps I was in error in my interpretation of that increase in the PYs. In fact, these 1.6 PYs were added to cover off student summer employment that historically was done under contract. We added it to this component under the casual wages, where students would come back and are employed by the department for four months in the summer. We have four trainees in this category: Danny Gaudet; Tanya Roth; Donna Kisoun and Donald Havioyok.

As I said, in the past this work apparently was done under contract. This year we changed it to casual wages. Therefore, I apologize to the Member for misguiding him yesterday, and I appreciate the opportunity to clarify it this afternoon. Thank you.