Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a comment and a question about the point that is being raised here. That has to do with the hiring of these new positions being done internally and open only to indeterminate positions. The Minister just indicated that that only applies to senior management, but even with that I don't really understand why that is the situation.
One would think that when there are openings like this, those that are within the system probably have had a heads-up, because they are familiar with the department, they are well known in the department and if they are good at what they do, they are probably going to get a pretty good response throughout the selection process, right from the beginning at the screening stage to the interview process and in terms of getting references from people that they are known to already. The people inside the system already have a heads-up or leg-up, so I don't understand why, because if this were wide open, preference would have been given to those who are already a long-term northern employee, affirmative action candidate and such.
I would like to know, for these new positions, what would have been a pool of people that would have been eligible to apply then, because it was for the senior management positions. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.