Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My written question is also directed to the Minister of MACA regarding regional director and community transfer.

The Baffin regional director has been chairing the senior management committee which meets monthly and includes all superintendents and director-level managers in the region. Does the government believe that the Baffin senior management committee has been active in dealing with issues of current concern in the region in a cooperative manner?

Does the Minister believe that the senior management committee has been effective? Who will chair the Baffin senior management committee if the regional director's position is eliminated? If the chair is to be replaced by a departmental superintendent, how will that person represent the government-wide perspectives? How will the regional superintendent chairing the Baffin senior management committee, as an equal, have the authority to monitor and coordinate lead initiatives within the region?

The Baffin regional director has been chairing the Baffin regional transfer committee, the regional director has been actively involved in community transfer in the Baffin which seems to be welcomed by virtually every Baffin community.

If the Baffin regional director is removed, who will replace the regional director in coordinating the role? If the coordinating/monitoring role is to be assumed by one of the regional superintendents, how will that superintendent have clout with other superintendents when each superintendent has the same status in the government hierarchy?

Since the Baffin community transfer initiative represents a new approach to CTI being tried out on a trial basis, why change the rules before the new approach has been concluded?

Isn't the change of the coordinating role from the regional director being seen to communities and the general public as a change from the Executive and Cabinet program and priority to that of a major departmental program? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.