Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess we are in agreement with Mr. Nitah that there is room for much improvement in terms of how the human resource policies of the government are applied. What we did is we undertook an overall human resource management study. We are in the process now of implementing a number of recommendations of that study. We are trying to enhance our policy base and to make sure the interpretation of the policy within each one of the departments is consistent and actively implemented. We are trying to strengthen our human resource community. That means we are providing training and workshops with our human resource managers to make sure they are actually applying the policies in a consistent and effective way.

We are trying to enhance our human resource practices, again for the same reasons, to make sure the interpretation is similar across the government. We are working in partnership with people, both inside and outside of the government. We are trying to strengthen our reporting and our accountability.

We have found in the past that we have not only not held people accountable the way they should have been, but we have not been able to report on our results the way we should. We are trying to improve in that area. We think the initiatives we put in place will actually improve the things you have identified as being problem areas.

We are also moving from an affirmative action to more of an employment equity approach, which would actually look at areas where we are not doing well in terms of applying the Affirmative Action Policy and providing support and enhancement in those areas to make sure our work is better.