Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I am not to provoke debate here today or show animosity towards the Minister or anything like that. I agree with him that when people get notice before hand that is what should happen. I think we have talked about that myself and the Minister before. I was just trying to clarify when some of the Members were saying that there has been no one laid off and they did not get layoff notices, but they were told that this was happening. Now after saying that, the Minister keeps talking about the three PYs, in actuality I think it is 17 PYs that would be eliminated with the reshuffling of the Language Bureau. My point was, and still is, although I understand Mr. Roland's question about regional office it has nothing to do with the Language Bureau that we are talking about.
What I am asking about is the restructuring of the Language Bureau and what is going to happen after the Language Bureau goes. The Minister likes to talk about putting the money into the language communities. The money is not in the language communities now and is being spent by this government. Have the language communities have been jumping up and down requesting this money?
I would like to know in the Language Bureau itself what is going to happen with the language development, the certification program, response for language promotion, the other facets of the Language Bureau that are getting skewered and are not being mentioned. I believe that in the proposal, one PY will be left in Iqaluit but once you take away three of the four staff members and leave 25 percent of the available bodies to do the work, then can that work be done sufficiently? Now falling back onto the NIC report and recommendations accepted by this government, a major proportion of that report included having a Language Bureau. We eliminate the Language Bureau today, in a year and half the Northwest Territories may not have a Language Bureau but Nunavut, which is contemplating having a Language Bureau, will have to start off again from scratch. I think that is poor government. My question is, as Mr. Miltenberger is reminding me, can the Minister confirm in actuality it is not 3 PYs but it is 17 PYs that are being let go across the Territories as a whole, three in my riding, one in the Keewatin and I guess the majority in Yellowknife. Is that correct?