Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My mouth may be full of marbles this morning, I just spent three hours in the dentist's chair, so if I am not that coherent please bear with me for those I am asking questions of. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Premier under the issue of the pay equity for the excluded employees, those who are not within the bargaining system of the union. The other day I raised the issue in the House, would the employees that are not part of the bargaining unit be eligible for pay equity and the answer was yes, but there were certain conditions on that. I understand that only those who are still employed with the government, and not those not employed, and the Minister of Finance and FMBS was going to look into that.

My concern, Mr. Speaker, is that we have a deadline of March 31st to be able to address this issue for those employees, both inside and outside. To hone in on two areas, if I may, the one that concerns a number of employees are librarians who have been classified in a classification code along with wildlife officers and the wildlife officers are male-dominated. The condition is that unless it is a female-dominated classification, it will not apply. I wonder if the Premier would consent to looking into this in the next day or two with his Cabinet colleagues so this issue could be addressed. Thank you.