Well, as I said, I am not trying to be evasive. I am just trying to be as accurate as I can. Again, I want to go back. To make statements about x amount of jobs that are going to go I think is inaccurate. We do not know at this stage of the game what the final conclusion will be as to the transition plan that all parties can agree to. We are still working as fast as we can on that. In some ways I wish we had it. We tabled a transition plan in October of 1997. I have not had a single response from any of the departments from any of the other parties. To say I am disappointed is the understatement of the year.
What we are now doing is analyzing the Interim Commissioner's report. We have got to reach consensus with all parties with what we think we can do over the next twelve months and what the jobs that will be necessary, the new jobs that will be necessary that were from Yellowknife over to the eastern Arctic. There will be some. There is no doubt about that. There will be, in my opinion for what it is worth, no sort of massive transfer of staff on April 1, 1999.
I am prepared, once we have concluded an agreement by the parties as to what is going to happen, who is going to go and when, to not only provide that to all Members of the House, we have the responsibility and an obligation to provide that to our staff. We are going to work with the staff to try to accommodate, where possible, the needs of those who do not wish to transfer to Nunavut with their jobs, through attrition and through other jobs and vacancies that may occur here in Yellowknife and elsewhere. There will be a considered effort to minimize the disruption to our staff. Thank you.