Mr. Speaker, as we’ve heard — and we’ve heard from a number of sources — this is a concern. The Minister of Human Resources has been working on the files to try to bring some clarity to it. We’ve had our discussions. We will continue to have those to look at some of that interpretation — the rules.
What we’ve come down to is, if we decide as a government — like the staff retention policy — a policy in place can be amended. And if we feel we
should use our discretion to say…. Why not direct appoint some of these individuals into places where they do fit? We’re not going to take people who, as the Member stated, don’t have the training and put them in a place where they’re bound to fail.
We’re going to do as much of that realignment as possible through our normal processes we have in place. And if we have to review that — the number of tools we do have available — there should be enough flexibility in that to make some of these adjustments.
Very early on, when we made the announcement, I had an e-mail from a constituent back home that said, Pick me. He was looking at moving on and retiring. I think we need to be open to those types of initiatives.