Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as we go through our exercise as a government, looking at how we spend our money, we look at a whole lot of areas to try to ensure that we don't spend needlessly in areas, but there's always a call for more money in different areas, whether it's NGOs, within government trying to be prepared for a lot of the development that's happening. Through the normal working of each department, when they are given targets, they look internally to see what areas that they can look at reducing before they go out to other areas. So as you will see as we go through this process, there are a number of areas where vacant positions are removed by the attrition that happens within departments when positions are not being filled. So we do some of that. A large part of the growth the Member is talking about is in the area of where we've actually taken on positions that were non-government organization positions before and we've pulled them into the government workforce. So that's one of the reasons for the growth, but I would like to emphasize that the actual numbers of growth from 1999 through 2004 are more in about the 700 position range and I do have a fair bit of detail as to how that happened and I believe I shared that with the Members in the past. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 354-15(3): Rapid Growth In The Public Service
In the Legislative Assembly on February 10th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Return To Question 354-15(3): Rapid Growth In The Public Service
Question 354-15(3): Rapid Growth In The Public Service
Item 8: Oral Questions
February 9th, 2005
Page 1147
See context to find out what was said next.