Thank you, Madam Chair. Over the past few years, bits and pieces of a government-wide approach have been brought to the table. One of the key pieces that this government came forward with was the approach to change from affirmative action to employment equity. The reason being is that we saw employment equity as a process that would allow a proactive approach rather than the reactive approach used, or seen, in affirmative action. So we have been struggling, since there hasn't been a widespread acceptance of that -- which is one of the key pieces of the government-wide process, or one of the key pieces that we saw as a government-wide HR plan -- we've been struggling with where to go from there and don't have a lot of manpower to invest in follow-up. So it hasn't moved very much since that proposal was advanced.

It isn't something that's been forgotten. It is something that is still being worked on and we're still working at bringing things forward to the deputies' table and then on up the ladder, but it's an issue that's going to take us some time to work around because we had thought we had one of the key pieces there and that doesn't appear to be well supported.