Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, Mr. Speaker, it is important to try to communicate these through officials and it does not lend itself well to discussion between people who are not experts in this field. As I have said, the core duties of the chief of staff in my view are those taken on by executive assistants.

Executive assistants do not have job descriptions. They are at pleasure but like the principle secretary, the chief of staff that we have created, which is an enhanced executive assistant position, is operating at a senior management level. The salary that we assign to this and allow for this reflects that. It is to ensure that person is qualified and has the dignity of being able to deal with deputy ministers, chief of staff across this country to be able to attract the type of person we need for this job.

It is a tough job. It is being done very well at this time by the person who fills it. We have said that it came out of the executive assistant position. The duties assigned to it are the core duties that are performed by executive assistant positions. Keep in mind that these are not laid out in a job description. We have enhanced that by including additional duties. That plus the political requirements of the job requires that we pay it a level that is considered a senior management level.

This is where we are. There is a possibility that the Member might be able to see that, but this is a good thing that we have done. He should be able to applaud it very shortly once he gets it. Thank you.