Thank you. I wanted to ask a couple of questions about public service career training. The Minister has heard from the Members of this House to urge the government to consider the development of a Public Service Commission. It would be a small body that would report directly to this Assembly in the same manner that the Auditor General does. It would report on the kinds of things such as whether or not the government was adhering to its own policies in the area of hiring. It would release employment data and statistics by department to help keep these departments accountable. It would discuss hiring practices. It would reference whether or not departments were spending their training dollars that they have been allotted or whether the government as a whole is spending its training money in the area of public service career training.
We think this is something that is very important, Mr. Chairman. I am wondering if the Minister can speak to the 1999-2000 actuals of $216,000 expended in public service career training and tell us how much was budgeted to be spent and, in fact, how much was lapsed in this area? Thank you.