If the department is responsible for the legislation and the policies and procedures that govern Human Resources, you know, as a corporate entity, the GNWT, then it would just make sense to me that, you know, whether it’s a stamp of approval or not, the proposed staffing reductions see the experts at Human Resources to make sure they pass some kind of test, whether they pass the procedures and policies that are in place — or the government just rushes out and does what they want.
Again, I think what’s happening, Mr. Chairman, is I’m getting a picture that this reduction exercise wasn’t well thought out. If they didn’t run it past Human Resources, then who did they run it past? Themselves? I think they at least owe it to the employees to run it past Human Resources first.