Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If I heard my honourable colleague's question correctly, it is our hope to provide some stability out there to the civil service. We tried to indicate in the budget that any major restructuring of the government will probably be put on hold at this time. There will be an emphasis on stabilizing the situation, providing some security to our civil servants, like I tried to on the division issue, and to move forward, to try to create some new opportunities outside of government. But I cannot, in all fairness to my colleague say today whether or not there will be any more lay offs over and above this budget. Some of this budget will cause some job loss, there is no question about that. Certainly it is our intent once this budget is balanced, we should be in a reasonable fiscal position to do some positive and creative things. So, there will be some job loss with this budget because of there is significant change coming about. But hopefully, in the future, this will be the end of it. Certainly, it is my hope that it will be the end of it. Thank you.
John Todd on Question 133-13(4): Future Civil Service Lay-offs
In the Legislative Assembly on January 27th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Question 133-13(4): Future Civil Service Lay-offs
Item 7: Oral Questions
January 26th, 1997
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John Todd Keewatin Central
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