Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There has been no change. We are happy with the changes and enhancements that we made. As the Premier, I am very happy with the changes I made to my office. I think as a cost-saving measure, the committee that reviews that the Executive department, I thought applauded that last year, but I could be wrong. They asked specifically not to see any additional cost incurred by my office.
It is true that the chief of staff does more than just provide executive assistant position duties, but it is also true in the 12 years that I was a Minister in the previous government, I have seen executive assistants do a wide range of duties, a wide range of varying types of workloads. I am not going to say that some did nothing, but some of them did a tremendous, tremendous amount of work. They are all different. Each Minister asked their executive assistants to do varying duties and they are varied. That is why there is no job description.
In this case, the chief of staff is a new job. It is being done by a person who is my executive assistant. We have retitled it to reflect that it is going to operate at a senior management level, but it still does all the executive assistant position duties that I was previously able to obtain from my executive assistant. So it is an executive assistant position. It is a chief of staff position. It does executive assistant duties. It does chief of staff duties. It is a pleasure appointment and it is paid as reflected as a senior management level positions. The sooner we get on to dealing with it in a legislative proposal, the better for everyone to clear up the ambiguities and the difficulties we are having with this issue. Thank you.