Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will try to pick up where I left off last time I asked questions and made comments. It's been awhile though since I was talking about that, so I will try to pick up my train of questioning.

I was talking, Mr. Chairman, about the casual employees at the SMCC that are going to be impacted by the change in designation for remand inmates at SMCC. I had indicated to the Minister, and I don't know if he confirmed this or not, but that it would seem that there would be about nine casual employees who would be impacted by this. He said the casual employee pool would stay the same but they would probably get called in less to work. How have the casual employees been notified or advised or counselled in terms of what they can expect their earnings to change to as a result of these changes? We certainly heard a lot about some of the counselling and requirement for the indeterminate positions that are going to be eliminated through layoff and all other legal ramifications and obligations around that, but here we have in Hay River quite a dedicated workforce in terms of casual employees who, in some instances, it's their sole source of income. So the Minister said maybe the warden should talk to them. Well, yes, this is March 7th today and with this change, I would have thought that that discussion with casual employees would have taken place by now. It's not like casual employees get any kind of severance or departing cushions to help mitigate some of the changes that they will be experiencing in terms of income.

As I stated so many times before, there are only 280 government jobs in Hay River. It's not like you can just waltz down the street and apply for a different one; unlike Yellowknife, where there are 64 vacancies in Justice right now. I am going to ask the Minister if he can confirm that too. I was thinking that perhaps rather than taking jobs out of Hay River, he might consider leaving some of those jobs unstaffed since they seem to be able to operate their facilities with somewhat less than a full complement of staff.

Has the warden at the SMCC had any discussions with the casual employees, some of whom have worked there for some time, with respect to what they might expect in the future as a result of this change in the remand? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.