Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I can speculate — because I wasn’t there. As the Member may be aware…. I think he was he was around when the Department of Personnel was blown up and the people from the department were hired off to the different departments. Their budgets were reduced by 25 per cent and the departments were told, “Well, you guys can be more efficient, so you don’t need as much money.” It came back to haunt the formation of the Department of HR, because none of the departments were willing to give any more than they had received from the centre. As such, with the amount of resources that were available, a lot of the positions were funded at 75 per cent levels. So that was part of the issue. A number of positions were eliminated, because it was felt the department wasn’t adequately funded.
Bob McLeod on Main Estimates 2008–2009 Department Of Human Resources
In the Legislative Assembly on May 27th, 2008. See this statement in context.
Main Estimates 2008–2009 Department Of Human Resources
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
May 26th, 2008
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