Thank you, Madam Chair. I believe this exercise we're doing is about making sure that we're doing the job right. That's the first stage we were involved in, in a sense, is getting the mechanics right. Making sure that the organization, the design job descriptions are fitting and able to work well. Then as we go through that and develop that, the second phase of that would be the policy end, how things need to work together and get that end together. That's definitely where we're going to be needing the input of Members, to ensure that we're on the right footing as we go forward.
I believe that as we go through this, it is critical we get this right and ensure that the right authority is in the right place to make the decisions necessary to get on things, to make sure that we're operating efficiently. So there will be some changes in the way things work right now. A fair bit of the decision-making process in the existing system still comes to headquarters.
What we're looking to do with this, once we're up and functional and have our policies in place, is that decision making can happen at the regions. The department will still have the final decision to make. The process will work where we've done the right job and somebody plugs in looking for employment, go through that phase and ensure that the mechanics of it works right and that all departments are using the same criteria as we go forward.
Ultimately it's going to remain with managers to manage in the regions. As well as the service centres, we're looking at enhancing their ability to get the job done. So there will be some changes. We have to be realistic here; there will be some dislocation about things that happen. There may be some growth in areas. This initially is not a cost-cutting exercise. It's one to make sure we get the job done right, set up the mechanics, get it done right and then at that point we can look at ourselves to see if we've accomplished what we've set out to do. If there are going to be any changes in growth, that will happen in the regions, not in headquarters. Thank you.