Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to confirm this, but I believe the senior management positions, primarily the superintendent positions, the competitions were first internal GNWT. Obviously, the next step after that is if you don't have qualified people, then you go to a full-blown competition and advertise north and south. It is more time consuming and costs more money.
As the Member has indicated, we do believe that much of the expertise does reside in the department. Potentially people in an open job competition, we think, many of these employees would have won the competition at any rate. We have had a difficult time staffing many of our positions in the department. There are currently a number of unstaffed positions. It is very difficult to fill positions. We wanted to make sure that there was a minimum of service disruption and we were able to roll this out effectively as of April 1st. That really was our motivation in this regard. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.