Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the specific area of Employee and Family Assistance Program differs from what the Member is speaking about. We get into the specific area of leaves, and special leave is a provision that is provided for occasions that, yes, an employee runs into difficulties and needs support, but our guidelines are quite clearly established as for what an employee can apply for that special leave. Beyond that, there are provisions that can be taken into account. If there is annual leave, if that employee would have annual leave on file or, as well, we would look at leave without pay if it is going to be a prolonged time away. So there is some of that flexibility built in.

When you do look at our overall package and we talk about special leave, annual leave, sick leave and things like that, we have a very generous system out there to help employees to try to deal with some of these areas. There is some flexibility. For example, if there is a loss in a family, and an individual has to travel to another community, there are some things that can be applied in there, but it still falls in with the allotment of time that has been established through negotiations with the employees. Thank you.